Word: lulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newly discovered function of the adrenals which Columbia University's Professor Raymund Lull Zwemer recognizes, is the regulation of salt and water in the body. This power resembles the power of insulin on sugar, the parathyroid on calcium, the thyroid on iodine. Common salt benefits cases of Addison's disease, a disease caused by defective adrenals...
...Bartholomew's.* Chaplain Kinsolving will take office as soon as the War Department accepts his resignation. West Point's most striking memory of him will likely be a recent one. The sexton hanged himself in the gallery of the West Point Chapel. Few days later, during a lull in the inquest, the presiding officer said to Chaplain Kinsolving: "I hope you like the new man I sent you to take the late sexton's place." "Yes, I liked him very much," replied Chaplain Kinsolving in all innocence. ''I showed him all the ropes...
...During a lull in the hearings Spokesman Smith suddenly opened the glass door to get a drink outside and the crowd of female clerks at the threshold fell headlong into his arms and the board room. "Hello-hello-hello!" he repeated as he shook girl after girl by the hand. Girls flocked in from all over the building. Annoyed at the delay, pompous R. F. C. Chairman Pomerene finally banged for order...
Money & More. When the meal was almost over and during a lull in Jim Farley's hearty storytelling, Mr. Raskob reached in his pocket and pulled out an oblong piece of paper. This he passed to the national chairman whose pale blue eyes blinked in happy surprise as they fell upon it. It was a check for $25,000-Mr. Raskob's personal contribution to the campaign of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Chairman Farley wrung Mr. Raskob's hand, gushed his gratitude. The party certainly needed the money but the Raskob check meant more than money. It signified...
...sharks surrounded it, cutting off its flight. No sooner had the swordfish beaten off one shark than another was upon it. The fishermen counted eight sharks. For 15 minutes unnoticed by the battling fish they watched while the water grew red about the boat. Then there was a lull and a moment later the swordfish appeared floating belly up on the surface. Before the sharks could devour it the fishermen drove them oft. hoisted what was left of the carcass into their boat. Minus head and tail it weighed nearly...