Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attempts to conceal suicides are quite frequent in a medical examiner's experience. In one case when entering the bed-room of a youth said by his sister to have died of heart trouble, Dr. Magrath noted the peculiar color of his ear. Although the room was free from odor, turning down the bed-clothes brought forth the smell of illuminating gas. An examination of the blood showed it to be of the bright magenta color peculiar to victims of gas asphyxia. The ordinary color of blood encountered in autopsies is a grayish blue. Dr. Magrath went out into...
WHAT I REALLY WROTE ABOUT THE WAR-Bernard Shaw-Brentano ($3.75). A wily prima donna among intellectuals, George Bernard Shaw knows that to hold the public eye it is necessary to make frequent appearances on stage. His present occasion, to lay the dust he raised when he wrote about the War, is made happy by many witty words. Having "no ethical respect for modern Capitalist civilization," Socialist Shaw "contemplated the British, German and French sections . . . with impartial disapproval. I felt as if I were witnessing an engagement between two pirate fleets, with however, the very important qualification that...
Philadelphia, Penn., March 17--Princeton defeated Columbia 38-35 in the play-off for the Eastern Intercollegiate League basketball title here tonight. Princeton led 19-16 at the half and was headed only once thereafter. The game was fast and rough throughout with frequent fouls. Seibert scored 14 points for Princeton and Fairman 13; McDowell was high scorer for Columbia with 13 points to his credit. This is Princeton's first League championship since...
Owing to the difficulty of enforcing the rules, infractions are becoming ever more frequent and annoying. Severe penalties have been imposed on those few culprits who have been detected, but the possibility of discovery is so slight as to encourage violations. Such was the condition at Widener before the installation of the turnstiles. If House members desire to enjoy the benefits of an informally conducted library, they must evolve some effective method of curbing practices, which, if continued, must result in irksome regulations...
...first full-length biography of "Old Man" Scripps, founder of chain-journalism in the U. S., appeared last month.* Its author, Gilson Gardner, longtime Washington correspondent for Scripps and his frequent companion aboard the Ohio, had every facility for making it an authentic portrait, including the insistence of his late employer that...