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...gall bladder is a "pear-shaped sack . . . [which] hangs from the under surface of the liver like a droplight from a ceiling." The liver manufactures from 30 to 50 ounces of bile every day, and the overflow (up to one ounce) pours into the gall bladder. From this tank, as well as from the liver, the bile trickles into the small intestine, where it helps digest fats...
...fortress at Louisburg. From Nantasket, Mass, in 1746 set forth 4,000 colonists under Lieut. General William Pepperell to reduce this French threat to Anglo-Saxon supremacy in the northeast. It fell in a few weeks, was returned to France when King George's War (a Western Hemisphere overflow of Europe's War of the Austrian Succession) was settled. Ten years later Lord Jeffrey Amherst (hero of a famed college song) took it again with the help of famed Tactician Colonel James Wolfe, who died later in the storming of Quebec. Since then it has been British soil...
...plan from political trenches, while "Youth" has cried out against the inconvenience of conscription, many a U. S. businessman has dropped a plushy job for harder work at $1 a year at a Government desk in Washington. Last week in its headquarters in the marble Federal Reserve Building, in overflow quarters in three other buildings, NDAC had somewhere between 400 and 500 dollar-a-year men and salaried employes (top, $9,000). No one had had time to count them but the draft on industry was still going on. Within six weeks NDAC will have...
Speaking to an overflow audience in Langdell Hall last night, Edwin S. Smith '15, member of the National Labor Relations Board, expressed his disapproval of the additions f new amendments to the Wagner...
...primary run-off for Louisiana's governorship. Five uniformed officers guarded the grounds, chasing away small boys who tried to plant anti-Long signs in the shrubbery. Outside, the night was clamorous: whistles, bells, automobile horns, the music of six bands rising from a parade two blocks away. Overflow from the parade surged past the mansion, shouting insults at the Governor. Confetti drifted down from the windows along Baton Rouge's Third Street; marchers in the parade threw handfuls of aluminum sales-tax tokens in the crowd. Because Earl Long had called Sam Jones "high-hat, sweet-smelling...