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...Marrow, Alfalfa. "One of the greatest services a man could render the world today would be the formulation of a recipe for an appetizing dish of bone marrow. Next would come an introduction of alfalfa as an item of our menus. Alfalfa is the richest of all foods in vitamin and iron."-Professor Louis S. Davis, Indiana University...
...Brother (Harold Lloyd). Great dark houses crashed and rocked with laughter last week. Funnyman Lloyd is loose again. Before permitting himself to be released Mr. Lloyd always examines his gag staff* to be sure no drop of marrow lingers in their funny-bones. He asks the continuity men if they have achieved the highest possible pitch of acceleration. The result is houses that crash and rock. Mr. Lloyd remains original, rapid, hysterogenic. This time he is Harold Hickory, rabbitty member of a bearish backwoods sheriff's family. He outwits his lumbering brothers and a traveling band of medicine fakers; outflirts...
Pernicious anemia is one of those baffling diseases which irritate doctors because they can know so little about it. It is not the ordinary anemia which many girls experience. Nor is pernicious anemia that faintness that comes on with occasional loss of blood. In such cases the blood marrow of the bones immediately manufactures enough strong red blood cells to make up for the lost ones. In pernicious anemia, the patient may live two or three years, but hope for complete cure has heretofore been vain. Blood transfusions give only temporary relief...
...traces with mock profundity the awful and mysterious path of solids and liquids through the system. As a running fire to this weighty discourse anecdotes of the great at table pop like champagne corks, snap like crunched marrow bones. There is rare eating and rich reading here...
...spectator could see at a glance that the Missouri team was badly addicted to Bacchus. That gentleman, playing left end, did his share toward scoring two touchdowns to Nebraska's one. If Marrow of Nebraska had plunged one inch further in the last half, the game might have been a tie. As it was, the score remained Missouri, 14; Nebraska...