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Bedside bulletins indicated that this ticklish operation went off satisfactorily last week. For a few months Princess Mary's neck will show a thin red line, thereafter a thread of scar almost impossible to discern...
...stability of traditional growth" now declared: "Would Upton Sinclair have done worse in the gubernatorial chair than the man who defeated him? It may well be doubted. He might even have done better, for he has an atom or two of genius in his composition while all one can discern in Merriam is cobwebs from an empty skull. Heaven help us before we perish from the folly of having chosen such a man as Governor...
...methods of self-education." Many an old Latin School boy nodded approvingly at the message which Philosopher George Santayana (1882) sent to his schoolmates: "The merely modern man never knows what he is about. A Latin education, far from alienating us from our own world, teaches us to discern the amiable traits...
Unhappy Mr. Miller was able to discern one ray of light. That was the Widows' & Widowers' Convention at Atlantic City over the weekend. Said he, bravely: "I'll get a chance to look over the seven or eight hundred other women and we'll have applejack and peanuts...
Most precious use so far for the Hampton technique is to discern an ulcer at the pyloric end of the stomach. That is the stomach's most active spot. Ulcers there, declares Director George Hoyt Bigelow of Massachusetts General Hospital, invariably turn into cancers. As with all cancers, if the surgeon can recognize them in their early stages, he can destroy them before they destroy his patient. Director Bigelow told the surgeons in Boston last week that his staff surgeons, by operating quickly, have prevented cancers in practically every pyloric ulcer Dr. Hampton has photographed for them...