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While it’s unclear if she flew in on a broomstick, used Floo Powder, or took more “Muggle” means of transportation, Emma Watson, the British actress who plays Hermione Granger in the “Harry Potter” films, graced campus with her magical presence for much of yesterday...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Hermione’ Enchants Campus With Visit | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

...fogbound on Dartmoor, musclebound in Bristol and sodden in Somerset. He was rained upon almost everywhere (though not, oddly, at a place in Scotland called Hill of Drip), making clear why one of the few Gaelic words he picked up en route was fliuch. It is pronounced, he says, "floo-chh" and it means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How Awful, How Good | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

Such a drug is 5-fluorouracil (pronounced floo-or-oh-you're-a-sill), which Dallas physicians started giving, at the beginning of last week, to House Speaker Sam Rayburn. It is usually given only to selected patients who have already had surgery, radiation or both. Mister Sam's body was so riddled with spreading cancer (probably from a growth in the pancreas) that surgery was not possible. All the doctors could do at first was try to slow the march of the disease by chemical warfare against cancer cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mister Sam's Drug | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

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