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When a miner breathes finely divided silica (quartz), the sharp microscopic particles, lodge in the little sacs at the ends of the air tubes in his lungs. The irritation forms scar tissue, whose stiffness keeps the sacs from collapsing, as they normally do, to expel air from the lungs. Breathing becomes harder & harder until the miner has to use all his strength merely to keep his blood oxygenated. Bacterial infections, including tuberculosis, often add to his misery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For Stiffened Lungs | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Students on probation must attend all classes, Ducey declared. Individual instructors may also warn any student taking too many cuts and expel him from the course if not satisfied with his subsequent attendance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Cuts Attendance Rules for Upperclassmen | 9/30/1948 | See Source »

...future, the medical society's council stands ready to expel any member found guilty of accepting rebates from any source. The A.M.A.'s Journal promised that an editorial denouncing kickbacks to doctors would appear in next week's issue. A warning also came from Los Angeles' Collector of Internal Revenue Harry C. Westover; he said that he would see whether doctors had reported their rebates to the tax collector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Kickback | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Asked about the possibility of open war, he stated that Arabs from the entire Near East would join to expel the Zionists. Kheiry warned that "the United States and the United Nations will regret the sin they have committed; If not now, in the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zionists Link with Palestine Colony, Rejoice at Partition | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Refreshingly different from other college libraries in its minimum fines and restrictions, Widener is loath to revert to the edict of 1931 and expel every student caught defacing a book. But in view of the wholesale destruction of bound newspaper copies, the cross-hatching of back examination forms, and the tendency to question the statements of unpopular authors with ink and bad taste, the library staff may be forced to apply thumb screws where simple warnings fail. However, even the most stringent regulations would only tax the ingenuity of college doodle bugs; any real amelioration of the situation must come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marginal Increase | 10/24/1947 | See Source »

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