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...lungs are two irregular conical shaped organs occupying the chest. At birth and for three weeks thereafter they are white. Gradually they darken to yellowish grey or reddish grey in the adult. People who live in smoky cities like St. Louis (TIME, Feb. 22) have their lungs marbled with black and blue lines from particles of soot. Coal miners' lungs are black, copper miners' are blue...
...Please darken the leggin's in front of Pheidippides' stomach. From a distance this gives him the appearance of potgut. Don't you think him a shade pink for a warrior? And WHAT is that black face behind Miltiades? It is only because we are very enthusiastic that we would dare offer a suggestion. We see it from a distance as it will mostly be seen. It will be a fine mural. PLEASE get on P's potgut though...
...wended their way to Winthrop House, whose windows shone warm and cozy. By midnight the windows had begun to darken and the girls began to realize that there was little hope. They were found by the University police at 2 o'clock wrapped in sheets. Where the sheets came from was not disclosed...
...necessary to decide this case in favor of the defense, the Church would be relieved of a great financial burden, it is true, but it would be charged, in popular opinion, with having avoided, through technical means, legal liability for what was an undoubted moral duty, and it would darken the way of the Church forever. . . ." Last week Judge Fee handed down his decision, found the Oregon Conference of the Methodist Church liable for $92,000 principal and interest on bonds issued for the Wesleyan Hospital at Marshfield. Ore. Thus in the first Bitting case to be tried, the Methodist...
Problem child for Radio Corp. of America has been Radio-Keith-Orpheum, theatre and cinema-producing company in the courts since February 1933. Last week David Sarnoff, short, round-faced head of Radio Corp. said, in effect, to his troublesome corporate offspring: "Go and never darken my door again." But the orphan was not put out into any storm. Waiting to receive it was Floyd Bostwick Odium's Atlas Corp. which, together with Lehman Bros., Manhattan banking house, bought an unspecified portion of RCA's holdings in RKO stocks and debentures. What Atlas and Lehman paid for their...