Word: lamp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gray puts his lead patients on a diet low in calcium, high in phosphorus. They avoid milk, most important source of calcium, and eat quantities of phosphorous-rich eggs, whole wheat bread, lamp chops, liver, green peas, pineapple juice, baked potatoes, halibut. The deleading must not go on too rapidly, said Dr. Gray, otherwise the lead may be disastrously shifted into the central nervous system...
Rustler's Code; Lamp Post...
From Pernambuco, Brazil, last week came word that Virgilino Ferreira da Silva. 34, "the John Dillinger of Brazil,'' had been shot in a brawl and died of his wounds. Better known as Lampedo (the lamp post), Brazil's John Dillinger has shot his way through back-country towns and ranches for 15 years. Two hundred Federal troops with machine guns and airplane scouts were unable to catch Lampeao, who delighted the country folk from time to time by free distribution of all the beer in town and by pulling out sheriffs' beards, hair by hair...
...Dial message registers are so designed that they cannot operate unless the distant telephone answers. The answer of the distant station is just as necessary to operate the register as the turning of the switch to light a lamp. . . . One hundred thousand inspections made showed accurate operation in 998 cases out of each 1,000. . . . The inaccuracy was an error in subscribers' favor...
...close-striving study over Kant's "Ethics," and for relaxation counts the number of students taking History 1 in the New Lecture Hall. In the evenings he watches the first of the terrific little moths fling themselves with pings of desperation against the tin shade of his study lamp. And in the mornings, supine upon his pallet of horrid languor, he gazes with admiration at the accurate spider stretching her slow web across a corner in anticipation of the few flies which wander solemnly through the unremembered rafters of Memorial Hall...