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...those oblivious to physical discomfort, the wait is galling in its futility. Moreover, when the crowd is finally admitted and allowed to stand in the vestibule for a half hour before the start of the concert, its impatience and indifference to smoking prohibitions create a disorder and fire hazard which are sufficient in themselves to label the present system highly unsatisfactory...
...passing, Dr. Quigley's data showed that "while pregnancy and labor in a woman having her first child after 30 carries with it an added risk to the mother and her baby, this hazard has been very much overestimated." More important than a firstling mother's age is her general health, the normality of her construction...
Thelma Lane lived peacefully on a hill farm near Glen Hazard, Tennessee mountain town. Her brother Chad lived with her; from dawn to dusk he swung a dirty hoe. Just as he had about got the farm paid for, in came City-Man Lynn Clayton who had inherited some deserted coal mines next door. The outlander, financed by his friend Lida Grant who came with him to watch his operations, planned to make coal-bricks out of the deserted coal-dust, sell it to the city's poor. His meat was Glen Hazard's poison. First he ordered the Lanes...
...breaking point, when everybody's suspicions were mutual, Lida Grant, worried lest murder materialize, set fire to Clayton's coal-sheds. After the bonfire Glen Hazard's native sons drove them both out of town. Thelma returned to the Tennessee mountain peace with a sorrow for the city-man in her heart, but only Chad and Vesper on her hands...
...Curtiss-Hawk. Then, without warning, the ship dove out of line at 200 m. p. h., crashed its pilot to death. No satisfactory explanation of the tragedy was ever reached; but many onlookers, including David S. Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, suspected carbon monoxide. The same hazard-odorless, colorless CO gas from the engine exhaust, soaking into the pilot's blood until lack of oxygen overcomes his senses-may have caused many another unexplained crash. Secretary Ingalls soon put in motion a thorough study of the hazard by the Bureau of Medicine & Surgery and the Navy...