Word: mite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lets her go back to Cairo to marry her Britisher, abducts her once more just before the ceremony. For cinemaddicts of the current crop-who may be less ready than their predecessors to believe that sheiks are irresistible per se -Authors Edgar Selwyn & Anita Loos contributed a new mite to the formula: the heroine explains Jamil's fascination for her by telling him that her mother was an Egyptian...
Herren Severing & Grimme managed to send their passports to the Presidential Palace, breathed a mite easier when they were able to say, "Our true friend President von Hindenburg is holding our passports as trustee...
Fact Judged by U. S. standards Japan's middle classes are miserably poor, but even the poorest patriot can give his mite. Last week the Japanese mite was fixed, for patriotic purposes, at five sen (1? current exchange). Two million workers pledged that every month for the next three years each will pitch five sen into a "War Chest" of $720,000 which will be offered to the Sublime Emperor Hirohito, "Son of Heaven...
...droll little mite is the leucocyte, scooting here & there, sending out inquisitive pseudopodia (prolongations) as does the amoeba. Policeman of the blood stream, it scavenges waste, destroys certain bacteria, ignoring some and gobbling others with gusto. Pus is compounded of dead bacteria, dead leucocytes. It is well known that the leucocyte count is high in infancy and old age, decreasing in between. Massage, exercise, eating proteins increase it; fasting lowers it. In such infections as pneumonia and appendicitis the white cells rush to the defense of the infected tissue, are replaced by peculiar polymorphonuclear-neutrophile cells, called "band-form" from...
...best U. S. show horses: Mrs. Florence F. Dibble's veteran Flowing Gold, winner in the class for large saddle horses; Mrs. John Hay Whitney's string of dappled grey hunters; Mrs. William C. Cox's bay gelding hackney pony Cassilis Mighty's Mite, who won the Killearn Farm Challenge Trophy; Mrs. Paul Moore's famed Seaton Pippin, world's champion hackney. Interest in the jumpers centered this year on the Irish Free State's string. Outstanding jumper from Ireland was Shannon Power, a 5-year-old chestnut gelding, winner...