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...chill characteristic of malaria occurs when swarms of ripened germs burst out of dying red cells and scatter their spores throughout the blood. After the chill comes fever. This occurs while the spores settle into uninfected red cells. Many people, unable to stand repeated shocks of chills and fevers, weaken...
...trees along the Avenue one chill evening last week climbed 50 relief workers. Each one was armed with a long pole, a tin can partly filled with pebbles, a promise of six hours work each night at 40? per hr. "If there's anything the starlings hate," gloated Superintendent Lanham, "it's the rumpus and clatter of the cans. They'll flee for dear life." Setting up a frightful din, the workers rattled and poked. As predicted, the starlings fled-to the eaves and cornices of nearby buildings, where they resumed their own annoying chatter. Superintendent Lanham...
...Toledo, La Mancha, Cordova, Seville, Cadiz, Malaga, Granada. Traveler Tomlinson noted all the proper sights but it was the least thing that set him philosophizing. In Toledo's Escorial he pondered the English novel; at Ubeda a dusty image of Christ in purple silk pants struck a chill into his warm feeling that Spain was more nearly in the right path than her more progressive neighbors. At Jerez de la Frontera he sipped sherry in cool warehouses, thought of Falstaff. whose favorite tipple was sherris sack. A tavern-keeper in Cadiz seemed to Traveler Tomlinson to speak...
...chill morning last week the ranking Democrats of Pennsylvania halted election celebrations to journey to a slag-piled hill near the town of McAdoo. There Governor-elect George H. Earle stood beside a freshly-turned grave. There, too, stood Senator-elect Joseph F. Guffey, Democratic State Chairman David Lawrence, onetime Commonwealth Secretary Richard J. Beamish. Presently 10,000 mourners gathered from nearby towns, began to chant the Requiem responses in a half-dozen tongues as three obscure men were laid to rest. The dead buried, a handful of women surged around Governor-elect Earle to scream in Italian...
Snug behind closed windows in his study at Mount Hermon School for Boys one chill Massachusetts evening last week sat the Rev. Elliott Speer, 35, headmaster. Like hundreds of other schoolmasters, he was just back from vacation to prepare for another term. A few boys and proctors were back too, but most of them would not arrive until school opened the following week. The 2,500-acre campus, in the hills near Northfield, lay summer quiet. As was his nightly habit, Headmaster Speer sat with notebook in hand planning his next day's schedule...