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...runs in the first two innings, the Crimson protected their lead to the end. Wallace struck out nine men and was extremely effective when it really counted. After pushing over two runs in the bottom half of the first inning, the best the Camp Thomas men could do was chalk up single tallies in the fifth and eighth...
...Cinque Ports - originally Sandwich, Dover, Hythe, Romney and Hastings, later all the southeast coastal towns - dot the chalk-cliffed coast where France leans closest to the British Isles...
...trouble with bed rest, observed the Cornell savants, is that man was not constructed to lie on his back. The position: 1) impedes blood flow, 2) hampers digestion, 3) causes compression of the back part of the lungs, 4) robs bones of chalk, 5) weakens muscles, 6) lowers morale (because of bedpans, etc.). The arguments for bed rest are that it cuts down energy consumption and promotes healing. But contrary to common belief, declared Dr. Dock, sitting up in a chair takes little (if any) more energy than lying down. Robbing bones of chalk is no way to heal fractures...
Cyril Forster Garbett (rhymes with carpet) was born (1875) in the little Hampshire parish of Tongham, which served the military camp Queen Victoria had recently established at Aldershot. Garbett's father was vicar. Tongham lies near the chalk downs of Salisbury Plain and the heather-and-fir country of the New Forest. Here, until he was 23, Cyril Garbett lived with his three brothers and one sister (all raised on his father's midget salary). Later Cyril Garbett decided to follow his father, grandfather, and two uncles into the Church of England...
...assistant curate (at ?20 a year), Cyril Garbett went to the combined vicarage of Portsmouth and Southsea, which, under the name of Portsea, was the biggest vicarage in England. The shy, reserved youth had exchanged the quiet of the cloud-shadowed chalk downs for some of the toughest waterfront slums in Britain. As quietly and systematically as he had dug in the vicarage garden, young Cyril Garbett dug into the causes of slums and poverty, turned up the disturbing idea that no matter how much help the churches' spiritual program and social services may give, the roots of most...