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Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania: "A canoe which I was paddling up the Yellow Breeches Creek near Harrisburg, capsized in the rapids, pitching me headlong into the swift current. Being an excellent swimmer, I reached the shore, where my wife helped me from the water. Drenched, hatless, I walked more than a mile to a farm hourse. Next day I was none the worse for my chilling experience. The newspaper made a great joke over the fact that I had been...
...Lilienthal. The development of adrenalin, the invention of the cardiograph (for recording heart action on smoked paper), the use of the phonograph to magnify stethoscopic sounds, electric photography of the heart in operation and other innovations have contributed to this result. But the increase of heart strain in our headlong urban life is giving the medical and surgical profession serious cause for worry. Organic diseases of the heart are now the largest single cause of death in the registration area of the United States, having passed both tuberculosis and pneumonia in the last two decades, with...
...astray by our stupidly standardized civilization". The author recalls that this even-tempered nation of the Orient herself represents a mature and wise civilization which has escaped the ruinous fate of Babylon, Greece, and Rome, and the annihilation which we are told awaits the Occident in its headlong flight. And today, M. Rouff adds, China embraces four hundred million peaceful souls, fearless of death and sublimely happy, loyal, content, filled with self-sufficiency and a desire to be left alone. "What can we accomplish" (referring to the burst of international "generosity" toward China concentrated in the Washington conference) "against...
...mood to eat "humble-pie"; the victories of a half-century are not easily overcome by four years of technical defeat. Germany came out of the war practically unscathed, except in man-power; she was not crushed, but checked for a time in her headlong career. Even the 'rebellion," and the setting up of a Republic can at the last avail little against the popularity of the "blood and iron" theory as vindicated by Bismarck in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles...
...moments of the game. Zundell by name, he whisked through openings, usually in the right side of the University line, and swirled and stumbled up to and often practically through the second line of defense. At least three times he all but made first down in one of these headlong dashes...