Word: iv
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...father was Maj. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, son of the Soldier President. The Colonel was graduated from West Point in 1903, did the usual round of foreign duty, married the daughter of Elder Statesman Elihu Root. He has three daughters of his own, but no U.S. Grant IV. In the War he was a member of the U.S. General Staff Corps, on the official fringe of the Paris Peace Conference...
...heard that there were blood tests to decide putative paternality. Her information was imperfect. There are four kinds of human blood, called in medicine Groups I, II, III, IV. Only if a child's blood differs from that of both its parents', is it probable that the man is not the father, and possible that the woman is not the mother. Resemblances cannot be conclusive...
That there are four different types of human blood has another, and far greater significance in medicine. For blood transfusions bloods must not be antagonistic. Blood group IV in emergency may be used for any transfusion. It has general characteristics. People of the other three groups can furnish their blood only to patients of their own type...
...stands before her, heels together, tall slim body bent deferentially towards her. That was the way he used to stand when, as naval lieutenant and Harvard undergraduate, he courted her. It absorbs her into the Byrd tradition, reminds her of his bright ancestor. Henri of Navarre, Henri IV of France...
Died. Admiral the Honorable Sir Edmund Robert Fremantle, 92, of London, "Father of the British Navy"; in London. Admiral Fremantle was the only surviving flag officer born in the reign of William IV. He entered the Royal Navy in 1849, serving on the three-decker Queen. His grandfather, Thomas Fremantle, captained the Neptune at Trafalgar (1805) under Lord Nelson. His son, Admiral Sir Sydney Robert Fremantle, retired last year. Admiral Sir Edmund's snowy whiskers often festooned a royal carriage at the opening of Parliament. On his gist birthday he criticized the wary tactics of Admiral Jellicoe at Jutland...