Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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LADY SUFFOLK AND HER CIRCLE-Lewis Melville - Houghton Mifflin' ($5.00). The light which this book diffuses on the dark ages of the early Georges shines like a beacon upon a dismal barren island. Lady Suffolk, Mistress of George II, is the lady of the lamp. In 40 letters upon which the author has based his work, she gives some choice sidelights on the social life of the time; and the author in his turn has been able to embellish them with many an observation drawn from his immense knowledge of the period. The reader learns that George...
...ever awake early some morning, while it was yet dark, and hear the milkman rattle the bottles as he left the nice milk for your breakfast,-and as you snuggled in your warm little bed did you send out to the milkman a loving thought, a grateful thought, and ask God to keep him happy ar warm...
Whenever the heart beats, electricity flows over the body's circuit. Dr. Einthoven's device records the fluctuations of this current by means of two wires of quartz, so fine that they are invisible even under a microscope, unless thrown into relief by light against a dark background. These wires are threaded across the magnetic field formed between the polar ends of an electromagnet. In each pole of the magnet is screwed a microscope, one lending light, the other enlargement. Rubber manacles are placed over the wrists of the patient. Under each manacle is a salt pad (electric...
Away puffed the little steamer, out of Novorossiisk harbor into the West. After 200 miles of steaming, the dark mountains of Crimea loomed to starboard. There lay Balaclava, where the British charged; there Sevastapol, where they used to ship tons of grain from the eastern Steppes. The little steamer heeled off northerly, past Cape Tarkhan, toward the Ukraine, for Odessa...
With a nucleus composed of men like Captain Dunker, W.L. Chapin Jr. '25, B.R. Cutcheon '25, C.G.T. Lundell '27, R.G. Allen '26, F.P. Kane '26, J.N. Watters '26 and others; and several Freshman stars such as R.G. Luttman '28 and A.N. O'Nell '28 and some possible dark horses, Coach Farrell is looking forward to a successful season, Immediately after the meeting track practice will begin under the direction of Coaches Farrell, D.F. O'Connell '21, and Jakko Mikkola, coach of the Finnish Olympic team...