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Operations to remove glands at the brain's base and certain nerves adjoining arteries have been successful in curing angina pectoris, the dread disease of the business man. So testified M. E. Dandy, surgeon of Johns Hopkins, before the Tri-State Medical Association...
...wisdom of Coach Fisher's scheme in cutting 84 men from the University football squad the second day of practice is now making itself apparent. The incentive of promotion has been substituted for the dread of getting cut, and the 95 players who now make up the second squad know that there is an opportunity for advancement such as there never was before under the old system...
...Yusuke Tsurumi, suave, patient young Japanese liberal, explained that the U. S. exclusion policy might well drive his countrymen into the dread Siberian morasses of Communism...
...effort to advance the tenets of the late Professor Percival Lowell that there is life on the planet, as evidenced by the existence of vegetation colors and the alleged canals. In general, astronomers displayed more interest in studying the satellites or moons, Phobos and Deimos (Fear and Dread), named after the mythological steeds of Mars' chariot. No new satellite was discovered, although at the Yerkes Observatory at Lake Geneva, Wis., conditions were very favorable for examining the satellites...
...minutes at a time. "But oh," wails Jeritza, "how many times did I wish he were holding a sack of flour instead of myself! He had muscles like ridged steel. Resting on them was about as comfortable as lying on a pile of steel bars. I used to dread that fourth act like a trip to the dentist." There was also Leo Slezak, who "is very stout; 'I always like to work with you,' he often told me, 'because you are so thin I can actually embrace you on the stage when an embrace is in order...