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...York group of stockholders who control the institution to meet the demands of the FDIC. Local officers of the bank have attempted to handle its affairs conscientiously, but the power lies with the group of New York interests." The New Jersey Banking Commissioner chimed in that "certain alleged irregular practices" had been under "surveillance...
...cherry-rimmed Tidal Basin, directly on the North-South axis from the White House through the Washington Monument. The building will serve no purpose other than to house a monumental statue of Thomas Jefferson similar to the one now in the Capitol. To give the building due impressiveness, the irregular Tidal Basin will be drained, its cherry trees uprooted and transplanted. Three formal reflecting pools will be constructed to take the Basin's place, new streets will have to be built and paved, new traffic arteries allocated. Washington engineers estimate that nearly five times the voted...
...lungs are two irregular conical shaped organs occupying the chest. At birth and for three weeks thereafter they are white. Gradually they darken to yellowish grey or reddish grey in the adult. People who live in smoky cities like St. Louis (TIME, Feb. 22) have their lungs marbled with black and blue lines from particles of soot. Coal miners' lungs are black, copper miners' are blue...
...biting surfaces of natural teeth are irregular. The pressure on them in biting and chewing is therefore irregular. They can stand this because they are firmly fixed in their sockets. A set of false teeth, because they are fixed to removable plates, rock in the jaws and hurt the gums, sometimes the bones...
...quit. But that virtuoso of unnatural virtue has been effectively laid low, and today we hear about Tobias (Smelfungus) Smollett, the good-natured ship's surgeon who was exhilaratingly picaresque both in his life and in his heroes, and Laurence Sterne, the scurrilous curate who poured his irregular soul into the shockingly irregular Tristram Shandy...