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...recent years, Dr. Namias explained, the planetary current over North America has changed its behavior. Its waves have shifted in a way that brings more air from the Atlantic Ocean and less from Canada. Since ocean air is warmer in winter than Canadian air, the change makes the winters milder along the Atlantic coast...
...sturdy Vermont farmhouse which gave it its title, The Southwest Corner has many more strengths than weaknesses. John Cecil Holm has created a thoughtful framework out of light material. His rather effective come tragedy is due almost entirely to sharply chiseled characterizations. For dramatically, the playwright's adaptation of Milder Walker's novel is somewhat shaky. His arrangement of ideas and characters is less clear-cut than her original fashioning of them. But masterful acting by a woman, not the heroine, buttresses this one weak timber, and makes The Southwest Corner a skillfully executed play...
...where the esophagus (gullet) passes through the muscular diaphragm from the chest cavity into the abdominal cavity (see diagram), the muscle was weak and part of the upper stomach had herniated or bulged through it. How the hernia started, they could not tell (it might have been there in milder form since birth), but there was no doubt that it was the cause of much of the Pope's recent gastritis, hiccuping and vomiting. The hernia held food like a pouch, instead of letting it pass straight into the main part of the stomach. Acid and digesting food...
...gathered in Red Square to celebrate the 67th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, "the warmongers are still continuing and increasing their activity." Such words are as expected a part of revolutionary celebrations as references to Old Glory on the U.S. Fourth of July. But last week the remarks were milder. When the usual parades were over, several representatives of the "warmongering" U.S. were among honored guests at a huge Kremlin banquet. There for the first time, U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen broke bread with Premier Georgy Malenkov...
...necessary to pick different strains of virus to represent the three main polio types because some highly infectious strains are less potent than seemingly milder strains when it comes to stimulating the production of protective antibodies. Also, individuals differ in their antibody response to vaccination, depending on whether they have had some previous natural immunity to one type of polio virus...