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...Hitherto lifeless, punchless, and almost winless, Coach Cooney Weiland's skaters put on a fine exhibition of fight and opportunism, upsetting Dartmouth, 5 to 1, before over 6,000 in the Arena...
Requests in the form of cables from Hong Kong signed by intermediaries were frankly blackmail. One sent to San Francisco read: "Grandfather fined $2,000 U.S. Remit money immediately or lifeless." A Boston Chinese was informed that his family was in a concentration camp-unless he paid, each member would be lashed by ropes to five horses and pulled apart. The extortion letters and cables were even sent to such places as Wichita, Kans., which has only 100 Chinese...
...filled bathtub and could not be roused. The doctor who came at the call of the apartment manager also thought that Mrs. Butler was dead. He could find no pulse, his stethoscope revealed no heartbeat. A mirror held before her mouth and nostrils showed no breathing. The eyes seemed lifeless, and Mrs. Butler's body was cold. Though the doctor estimated that she had been dead for hours, rigor mortis had not set in. The bath water, it was thought, might explain that...
...husband told police that he was roused by an alarm clock Tuesday morning, and shortly afterward noticed that his wife was virtually lifeless in bed. He rushed her to the hospital...
There were no cyclotrons, of course, when the earth was young and lifeless, but the ocean water probably contained carbon dioxide and a variety of other inorganic chemicals. High-energy radiation from cosmic rays and other sources might have impregnated this virgin solution as it does today. It seems quite possible that it created formaldehyde. Then, in a billion years or so, this simple stuff may have turned into sugars, proteins, and at last into living particles...