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...cartilage, firmest section of laryngeal framework. The soft tissues adhering to the hyoid bone are not scraped off, since they provide a good blood supply. As a living graft, with one end assured of normal circulation, the hyoid bone is far superior to any foreign graft clipped from the rib or ear. Only disadvantage, said ruddy, vigorous Dr. Looper. is a slight discomfort in swallowing, but this tends to disappear...
...love, admire and emulate." At the end of it, Consul Zarza pinned a blue-ribboned gold medal upon Major Rowan. It was the Order of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuba's highest honor.* The old soldier, suffering from age's infirmities and a rib broken last April, received his reward in silence...
...four post is hotly contested between Alex Whitman '41 and Walt Reed '41. When Elbert Moffat broke his rib at number four on the Freshman Firsts, Reed moved in to take his place. After Moffat returned last week Reed was shifted to starboard where he became a throat to Whitman who has been rowing number three oar consistently all year. Because Moffat's position is practically assured, one of these other men will move down to the combination post...
...relaxation he loafs in Hyde Park with his bounding black Afghan coursing hounds, Rib and Rab, one a gift from the King of Afghanistan. Their full names, Ribbentrop and Rabinovich, are Augur's private joke in defiance of Nazi anti-Jewish legislation. Trained to run down gazelles, Rib and Rab now lope with their master on his news hunts all over England, have committed nuisances in the sacred precincts of the Foreign Office itself...
Eighty-year-old Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, who 40 years ago carried William McKinley's famed "Message to Garcia," fell in his San Francisco home, fractured a rib...