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When a pleasant house party is disrupted by a murder every one of its members looks suspiciously at the others, knowing that any one of them may be a murderer. Last week officials of the U. S. Treasury looked at one another with similar discomfort believing that among their number was a traitor...
...finally fits a thyroid or parathyroid graft into a new body, the graft suffers no shock, takes firm and lasting root, grows and supplies essential hormones. In the Stone technique whole glands are not necessary for grafting. A few strong cells suffice, and their surrender causes the donor no discomfort...
...easy success to which any anti-Hoover candidate would have come seduced the great Secretary into dreams of electoral mastery; but the rough and tumble of a New York campaign should leave him content with new stamp issues and public speaking safely cloistered from the razor minds which discomfort...
...Davison, "it was worse than any dream of torment Dante could ever have conceived. The heat stood a solid wall even ... at 10,000 feet, and if we tried a mere peep through windows our eyes were scorched and our heads swam. Of course, to add to the discomfort, it was rough as the dickens. . ." After two scorching days & nights, the weather turned cool and cloudy. They began to enjoy themselves. Near Juba the pilot banged a bell thrice. Game! Fourteen passengers whooped with excitement, flattened their noses against the windows as the ship's nose went down. They...
...person's weight (seven grains for a 200-lb. man or woman) increased a person's metabolism by 30%, made him half again as lively as before getting the dose. This sluggard's prodding has been kept up for three months with no ascertainable discomfort or injury to the people experimented on. An equivalent dosage of thyroid gland, another dissipator of indolence, would have made the experimentees irritable. Dinitrophenol caused no nervousness, anxiety, trembling, hunger or palpitation. It raised neither temperature, respiration nor pulse...