Word: contains
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There is, for instance, the one about the medical student who, during a murder scare, takes a ride on a crowded bus with a bulky package that proves, amid screams and general pandemonium, to contain a skeleton. There is the portentous purchase of the first stethoscope: "No, no. I think that's a little old for you, sir. What about this one? . . . Oh, yes. That's very much more you, sir. Comfy? Comfy?" There is the usual lecherous intern (named Benskin and known as "the ravishing reindeer") and the redheaded night nurse ("You succulent starched uniform with...
...granite in the area has been found to contain ten times the ordinary percentage of uranium, he added. Dartmouth is hoping to find a vein of the ore within the tons of granite beneath the land...
...proposed amendment provides several sensible rules to govern redistricting laws. It seeks to make all Congressional districts compact in territory, a principle which the legislature has repeatedly violated. And each district would contain almost exactly the same number of inhabitants, a needed change from the present system, where districts vary by as much as 100,000 people. Perhaps most important, no city or town, except Boston, could be divided between districts; legislative majorities could no longer win two districts by skillful splitting of enemy territory for every one lost...
Prisoners wear quilted uniforms, men in blue, women in black. The uniforms of political prisoners are stenciled, top and bottom, with combinations of numerals and letters which tell prison officials at a glance the prisoner's history. No histories could be more varied. The camps contain Old Bolsheviks who claim acquaintance with Lenin and Trotsky, Socialists, at least 30 Wehrmacht generals and several thousands of German prisoners of war, thousands of Poles, Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians, executioners who worked for the SS in the Ukraine, SS men, thousands of Russian and Ukrainian Jews (some of them victims...
Amalgamation would not mean scrapping the Annex's plans for its new graduate center: the buildings could simply be placed under Harvard administration, and instead of housing Radcliffe's Dean of Graduate Students, they would contain the Dean of Women in the GSAS. Superficial as these alterations may seem, they would facilitate long-needed administrative savings in a system that is more suited for the more leisurely days of 20 years...