Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scamps dumped the tar onto the road. Stifling fumes arose. The man ran to his wagon, into the noxious gases. Within a minute he fell into convulsions. A little while later he was bleeding from the mouth. Now, three years after, he is kept in a hospital. He cannot walk. He cannot feel. He writes inane and morbid poetry. He shouts out hymns for his own amusement. His wits are loose...
...four kinds of human blood, called in medicine Groups I, II, III, IV. Only if a child's blood differs from that of both its parents', is it probable that the man is not the father, and possible that the woman is not the mother. Resemblances cannot be conclusive...
Such commercial traffic has dangers. It cannot be closely supervised. Many a blood seller is diseased, many a one sells too often. It takes four to five weeks for such to replace their lost blood properly to provide for another transfusion. A doctor sometimes needs a donor in a hurry and has no time to make thorough blood tests and counts. He must rely on a seller's word, and many a man who will sell blood for a living will tell lies...
Disturbed was Artist Kent at this discrimination; insulted was he by further developments. For Marcus & Co. instructed Harvard to divide its award by sending a $500 check to Mr. Kent and a $500 check to Mr. Hammarstrom. Mr. Kent promptly returned the $500. Said he: "I cannot see that Mr. Hammarstrom is entitled to any recognition whatsoever." Thereupon Mr. Marcus announced that the entire $1,000 was really the property of Marcus & Co. and that Mr. Kent had been sent his $500 "purely as a courtesy." Both checks were returned to Harvard with instructions to make out a single...
...friends are not in touch with undergraduate social life. Still, if such alarming conditions as the House Plan promises to ameliorate really exist today, they claim the step is by all means desirable. Any plan which promises the intimate contacts of the smaller Harvard with which they were familiar cannot but appear attractive...