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...marked, all the wheels are rigged. All the world's a cage, and all its men & women merely slayers. His first novel, The Naked and the Dead, had enough of the juice of life to disguise this sophomoric fatalism. The only juice in Barbary Shore is embalming fluid...
...students left a House smoker at 10 p.m. and spilled into the Dunster courtyard, where they gave cheers, burned lighter fluid, and played football. The disturbance was spreading to Memorial Drive when an M.D.C. patrol car arrived...
...fundamental respects. In the first place, the batsman can hit to all sides of him, instead of only forward as in baseball. There is no such thing as a foul ball in cricket; play can take place in all 360 degrees around the batsman. This naturally makes for more fluid play: the batsman uses a far greater variety of strokes than in baseball because he can hit in any direction, and the fielders have to cover more ground. This is the main reason why there are more men to a cricket team, namely eleven...
...short, Scientist Kahn had developed the rifle. When he mixed the blood fluid from a syphilis patient with a substance prepared from fatty beef heart, the mixture quickly clouded and a deposit settled in the bottom of the test tube; with blood serum from a healthy individual, the clear fluid stayed clear. Thus was born the first simple and effective serum test for syphilis, and one of those in widest use today.* In popular lingo, Kahn tests are often called Wassermanns. Kahn, who took no cash for his discovery, lets the credit go too. Says...
...present the department is in a fluid state in terms of faculty. Several important appointments will probably be forthcoming before 1954, strengthening areas that have for recent years been without any personnel whatsoever...