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Medical Centre. Duke Medical School, School of Nursing and Duke Hospital are planned as, and already are (having functioned for eight months) the greatest medical centre between Baltimore and New Orleans. Admirably designed, efficient and already smooth running, the hospital stands on a knoll behind the Medical School at one end of the campus. With a capacity of 456 beds (150 for Negroes, 50 bassinets for infants) it now has about 175 beds ready?and filled. Its staff likes to take interesting, out-of-the-ordinary ailments rather than everyday broken legs or appendectomies. Last year 3,000 students applied...
...special train took the Speaker home to Cincinnati. Into ivy-clad "Rookwood," the old-fashioned family residence on a green knoll, was carried the grey casket. Waiting there was Mrs. Longworth's stepmother, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. Also there was a little girl with flaxen curls. Paulina could hardly understand when Mother took her in her arms, told her gently that Father was dead. ... To the house came the President of the U. S. who bowed his head and moved his lips silently. Also came the Vice President,* members of the Cabinet, a dozen Senators, nearly 100 members...
...Valparaiso, Ind., Mrs. William Knoll, in nine years seven times married to and six times divorced from the same William Knoll, said that when she got her seventh decree, now pending, she was through with William Knoll...
...mile from the First Church of Charlestown (parent of the Old South), where John Harvard was sixth pastor, there stands the twenty foot obelisk intended by the class of 1828 to mark his resting place. It is the most imposing memorial the "Phipps St. Burying Ground" possesses, crowning the knoll and attracting visitors up the single path, Harvard Ave., to investigate the name of the claimant to such relative magnificence. Every Memorial Day witnesses the press of scores of people to the central eminence, whence they may enter into a spirit of the services held at the base of this...
...ship pulled away for her three weeks' trip, through the icepack of Ross Sea, to New Zealand, and as his men breakfasted or dragged their sacks of home mail to reading seclusion, he saluted two long objects which rested, dejectedly, they seemed to him, on an ice knoll. They were the Ford and Fairchild airplanes which had carried him on his surveys of 150,000 Antarctic square miles...