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...gave his name to Hicksville, L. I. which still is a Quaker centre. Though for a time an Orthodox Quaker hastened to cross the street when he saw a Hicksite coming, the sharp distinction between conservative and liberal dulled with time. Only an expert eye can detect the small religious difference between Herbert Hoover and Haverford College, both Orthodox, and onetime Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and Swarthmore College, both Hicksite. Even in hidebound Philadelphia, for friendship as well as economy, Hicksite and Orthodox Monthly Meetings have been worshipping together during the past few years. Last week the Yearly Meetings...
...doctor would probably have slapped him on the back and told him that his heart was as sound as a dollar. The underlying conditions which bring on an attack of angina pectoris usually exist in the arteries of the heart muscle. Yet the physician may not be able to detect them with a cardiograph or x-rays. In general, honest doctors admit that angina pectoris and its causes baffle them, that all they can do is to stand off Death for a while...
...reported: "The wood for this dwelling was cut in the year 1260 A. D." But what interested the Carnegie Institution most was his finding evidence of periodicity in his charts which led him to believe that weather might repeat itself in cycles, and his invention of a way to detect and analyze such cycles...
...Businessmen, architects and contractors on whom Ickes investigators were turned loose to try to detect graft in every PWA project...
...enactment by hired actors became less important. Occasionally, however, certain transitions in the news narrative did require special shots. Thus the Prince Saionji sequence was briefly filled out in Manhattan by a helpful Japanese whose resemblance to the Last of the Genro is so close that few laymen can detect the synthetic...