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Such were the words of Mr. Barnard, a man far too human to say more, too kind to raise the hopes of those men in whose bodies burrow those minute, obscure carriers of death. But to medical men his clipped announcement made the fantastic whispers that had come to them seem duller than the garrulities of a midwife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Industrious Secrecy | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

...Cleveland, in four small rooms at the rear of the Reformed Seventh Day Adventist Mission, middle aged women and young girls congregated to watch the unrelenting minutes burrow into the future. They wore no lace, no ornaments, not even their wedding rings; they painted not, neither did they powder; for, said one: "The gates of Heaven are not open to the gaudy slaves of fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Doom | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

When Harvard bars anyone her students wish to hear, I shall regret my loyalty. J. R. BURROW...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Too Far to the Right? | 4/22/1924 | See Source »

Today the sappers burrow from the front trench under No Man's Land and blow up the enemy trench with high explosives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Sapping." | 1/8/1917 | See Source »

...told fable, the moral of which is not pointed. The writer shows a feeling for style which should save him from the use of such phrases as "The nearby town." Not to be exclusively literary the editors have printed "The Significance of the Struggle in the Balkans" by Mr. Burrow, who pleads for a dictator as the one great hope of the Allies, and who appears to write because he has something...

Author: By L. B. R. briggs., | Title: Monthly Approaches Standards And Ideals of Its Founders | 12/11/1915 | See Source »

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