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...space in which the lung moves), had squeezed his left lung up until it barely moved under his shoulder blade, had forced his heart far out of normal over to the right side of his body. Surgeons at Columbus' New McKinley Hospital tapped his chest with a hollow, apirating needle, drew off some pus, a minor operation which gave Switchman Cramer some relief. Fluid again accumulated. So surgeons last week cut through his sixth rib (the routine procedure for an empyema operation), put a rubber tube into the opening, let the fluid drain off. With the fluid pressure removed...
Thus, scowling, ruminated a grizzled golf professional on hearing of the scores made on various courses last week. Eastern Open. At Wolf Hollow Golf Links (Delaware Water Gap, Pa.) Walter Hagen won the Eastern Open Championship. The course, a 6,500-yard layout, was an exceptionally difficult one, with long carries, tough sea-grass in the roughs, greens intricately trapped. Two rounds of 72 would probably, the greensmen thought, be good enough to win; such stars as Joseph Turnesa, Emmet French, Cyril Walker struggled to get less than 80; John Farrell, with a 69, declared that he had played...
...diggers also claimed to have established that the term "catacomb"-ad or in catacumbas is the form generally used-loosely applied to all underground cemeteries in Rome, really belongs to the swale they were investigating, a likely derivation of the word being the Greek for "down in the hollow...
Beyond Evil. For the first time in the memory of this generation's playgoers, a play in a first-class Manhattan theatre was booed. After three acts of laughing and derisive whistles the curtain fell. Great and hollow were the catcalls. For this, the evening was memorable...
...Manhattan air, lifted his face to the warm blue sky pierced by a hundred workaday buildings, decided it was time to go home. Whereupon came announcement after announcement, for the bearded one was no mere singer leaving for a European holiday. He was Giulio Gatti-Casazza, impresario, in the hollow of whose mighty hand nestles the fate of scores of such little folk as singers...