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Extremely rare, as there are only four or five known, is the trestle table, but probably of more interest to Harvard men is the oak cupboard which has been used by all Presidents of the College since 1681. There are also some fine cane chairs and two excellent highboys. Another article of interest is a stand-up desk which was used by the Merrills of two generations and upon which their names, written in ink upon the inside, are still faintly visible...
...Today we have 244 prisoners. Here" said the sheriff, pointing into the refrigerator, "are three cases of eggs for them to eat tomorrow at breakfast. There in the pantry is our bread supply." And it certainly was not mother Hubbard's cupboard...
...sanatorium in Shelton, Conn, one evening last week Dr. Maher told 1,800 attentive physicians what he had been doing to some tubercle bacilli. Culturing them in a sterile glycerin broth, he had added some sterile litmus milk, put the flask in a cupboard at room temperature. The deadly, rod-shaped bacilli slowly disappeared, transmuted into round-shaped bacteria called cocci and diplococci. These bacteria, he explained, produce an acid which destroys their progenitors...
...cowled man commanded the Friar, and a lambent flame filled the chimney, cheering the room, driving out the chill mist. From the empty cupboard the servant produced a bottle of Maliga sacke and a fat capon. While the spitted fowl drank in the fire the monk talked of himself, of the joys of youth. "Thou'rt younge yet," be smiled. "And so was I, onely, methinks, a few houres gone. In everie pleasure reioycing, I imployed myselfe with all the wilde antickes of the sences. An apless knave, dauncing with the trulls, keping my stomacke better than my soule...
...always so vividly portrayed in the TIME broadcast when suddenly my clock fell to the floor at my feet and the floor rose and fell like an ocean wave, the book case full of books toppled over, plaster fell from the walls and ceiling, dishes crashed out of the cupboard; pots, pans, and food fell off the kitchen shelves...