Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waves had been used in submarine detection, during the War, when it was noticed that fish in the experimental tanks were occasionally killed. Subsequent experiment had shown that stagnant water could be freed from microorganisms; that small fish died in convulsions after "hearing" the quartz waves; that the blood count of a swimming mouse was reduced one half after 20 minutes' exposure. Possible significance: swift purification of water...
Reported Engaged. Roland Hayes, U. S. Negro tenor; to the Countess Colloredo of Austria. The Countess divorced the Count in order to marry the singer. Onetime Nora Iselin of Manhattan, now the Countess Colloredo-Mannsfeld, is married into another branch of the family. Mr. Hayes had been giving successful recitals in Vienna...
...from childhood. Once, with a rare beetle in each hand and a third in sight, he transferred one wriggling creature to his teeth, with distressing results. He studied facial expressions of people in trains, of his children from infancy, of dogs, which always took to him. He would painstakingly count tens of thousands of plant seeds under his microscope. He devoted years and two fat tomes to barnacles. An invalid, he had to systematize his work rigorously. He trusted few reports save of his own eyes...
...tight. Three yards were lost at the line on the next play, and then Chauncey fell back and shot the bullet-like pass to Saltonstall that carried the Harvard hopes. At full speed, stretching and straining, Saltonstall clutched the oval and dashed the ten yards to tie the count. Chauncey's drop-kick put Harvard ahead...
...Count Leo Tolstoy...