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...dentist's fingers, disappeared. The dentist surmised that it fell in some fold of his or Virgil Bailey's clothes, hunted no further. But Virgil Bailey had inhaled the burr. Lately deep-breathing Mr. Bailey experienced chest pains. X-rays showed the burr in the lower lobe of his lung. University of Michigan surgeons cut out the piece of lung which contained the dental burr, left Farmer Bailey comfortable and hale...
...drawings and water colors of Picasso there is evidence of a widespread tendency in modern art toward the expression of an extremely limited aspect of a subject. The Greeks would have smiled at those who become ecstatic in contemplation of a shoulder blade, a heel, or a lobe of an ear seen from an unusual angle. And many contemporary artists, in their fragmentary, abortive, productions, have given more proof of ingenuity than of genius...
...familiar figure at the pub, goes into partnership with Farmer Kindred. His housekeeper falls in love with him, but he is too busy becoming a farmer to notice it, though he gives her much too much good advice about her worthless husband, and once even bites off the lobe of that worthy's ear in her defense. Mulliver is already committed to a farmer's lass; the housekeeper and her brutal husband disappear; the converted grocer marries the girl. It is a pleasantly rustic idyll, with enough quaint dialect to tickle good humor, just enough "real life...
...Hard-working Richard ("Young Dick") Grozier, publisher of Boston's Post, (circulation, 397,419), son of Edwin Atkins Grozier, the Post's late great Publisher, testified. He submitted a letter he had received from his managing editor, Clifton B. Carberry, ablest lobe of the Post's brain. In part the letter read...
...which they saw fit to keep secret until last week. Two female English bulldog litter mates were received in the Harvard laboratory. They were observed and found to grow normally. After a month a needle was thrust daily into the belly region of the slightly smaller dog, injecting anterior-lobe extract of cattle's pituitary glands. Daily the doctors compared their specimens. In a month the smaller puppy had begun to grow faster than the larger one. Soon the smaller puppy was the larger...