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...startling and important was the discovery of blood corpuscles in the mummified remains. This is the first occasion on which a corpuscle has ever been yielded by a mummy. In addition the remains were generally in such a good state of preservation that sand could be found in the lungs of petrified Indians. Lung disease was disclosed similar to that disease so common among the inhabitants of dusty cities. Tuberculosis germs were furthermore detected and it is supposed that the Basket Maker tribe fought against a high death rate...
Statements. Albert Bacon Fall, ill with lung congestion, again called attention to "my integrity and the complete rectitude of my every action in connection with the Teapot Dome lease." He disavowed any connection with any "jury-hanging" plot. Nevertheless, it was discovered that one of his counsel, Lawyer Mark Thompson, had telephoned a friend of Mr. Fall's at the U. S. Department of Justice to "look up the record" of a colleague who was being sleuthed by the Burns...
...simple that spontaneity is said to creep into it at times--a rare presence in any organized cheer. Let us instead drill a chorus of bright-clothed acrobats to thrill visitors to Cambridge with antic contortions on the side lines. For the present cheer, with the pounding weight of lung-power behind it, with its full energy directed to the field and to the game there being played,--let us substitute an ingenious concoction of shrieks, whistles, walls, and hoarse laughter, the latter evincing that we are, beyond a doubt, jolly college boys and full of zest and snap...
...arrived to match its skill with the best Harvard can offer, there would have been no consternation in the stands. For Harvard has confidence in its musicians--only too often, indeed, it has had to depend on them to defend its glory on the gridiron. Those exercisers of lung and finger carry the Crimson standard high as they parade through the goalposts--before the game--and again when they return courtesy for courtesy between the halves. Only one really pernicious habit has cropped out in the Harvard Band. It made its first appearance in the Princeton game last year, when...
...leading him rubbed the horse's nose, then looked down at his hand quickly. It was covered with blood. Dice, suddenly tired, stood stiffly while bright red drops made a pattern on the damp turf. Four hours later, blood still pouring out of his nose from a lung hemorrhage, Dice died...