Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rear Admiral Latimer was not called upon to inspect the "rights" of the situation (see above). Sailorlike, he obeyed his orders from Washington. Curt, he commanded President Juan Sacasa to disarm his troops or withdraw them from the Puerto Cabezas area. Secondly, he ordered the local mahogany growers to pay taxes only to the Conservative Government of Adolfo Diaz. By these acts it appeared that the hopes entertained by Dr. Sacasa and the Mexican Government that he should continue President had been blasted...
Other gentlemen of the profession expressed a moderate skepticism, They pointed out that narcosan was not a new composition. A Hungarian biochemist, Alexander S. Horoyitz, invented it years ago in Cincinnati, tried some experiments on addicts in the local jail, patented his solution. In 1921 it was rejected by the council on pharmacy of the American Medical Association because it contained "unknown compositions." The chief of police of Cincinnati last week wrote to say that he did not think Chemist Horovitz had effected any permanent cures there. "We do not know that it is a remedy that can be reproduced...
...clearing lets in more light for the remaining trees, which grow the faster in that direction. Seedlings take root and prosper. Each winter trees fall across the path from two or three to twenty or thirty to the mile according to the severity of the storms and the local conditions; and once or twice in a generation there comes a storm that lays low whole stretches of forest and obliterates miles of trail. Aside from such storms a trail long maintained in good condition and wellworn win be lost in any kind f growth if left to itself...
...operation was under local anesthetic. Heifer Jessie did not wince as the veterinarians scoured a patch of hide and cut a window into her first stomach. This was her rumen or paunch, where she was storing up her freshly swallowed fodder. Later, when these annoying men departed, she would regurgitate a large fistful and chew it at contented leisure, mixing it with saliva, so that it would slide down, a warm and pleasant blob of food, into her second stomach. This was her reticulum, her honeycomb stomach, which some day will be used for honeycomb tripe. (The rumen constitutes ordinary...
...stalked the jungle for nine months. Wary of their prey they had laid a great bait. At last he had come, eunectes murinus, the snatcher, coiling dangerously out of a dark stream. They took him after he had gorged and lay inert. Natives clustered about chattering, "Sucuri! Sucuri!" (local term for a reptile). They dreaded the monster as do all hunters save immediately after its meal, which occurs only about four times yearly...