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...long puzzle to students in the western part of these United States. Supposedly the acme of collegiate sedateness, formality, and decorum, the inmates of Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, and the others break out every so often in a burst of wildness that makes the diversions of the "rougher" Pacific Coast universities appear pale by comparison...
Long before they reached the surface again they had signalled failure. Planes went aloft, could see nothing. The sea grew rougher. Minesweepers moved back and forth, touched something, found it was a wreck. All that day and night the search went on. All day, all night, news was flashed to the cities of Britain. Sir Bolton sent a telegram to wives of married members of the crew: "We regret to inform you that your husband is missing and is feared drowned. . . ." Thomas Morris' wife read her telegram, waited at the post office for another...
Another novelty in the construction of the new portion of Adams House is the use of a rougher type of plaster than that used in the other Houses...
...goes away. Inflammation causes an exudation from the sacks. Doctors have merry names to describe the appearances of the exuding membranes-bread & butter pericardium, when the facing surfaces of the two sacks look like the slices of a bread & butter sandwich pulled apart; shaggy pericardium, when the surfaces are rougher than in the bread & butter state; icing, frosting, sugar-coated heart, when the sacks acquire a glassy surface. Dr. Claude Schaeffer Beck of Western Reserve University has devised delicate operating room technique which allows him to lay open the pericardium, remove any constricting tissues which may be there...
Even a casual and infrequent perusal of the daily press cannot fail to impress upon the average citizen that his country, a world leader in so many lines of endeavor, must at the same time own to preeminence in the rougher arts of hijacking, racketeering, municipal corruption, and homicide. Headlines keep us in touch with a gangster here entering a hospital to recuperate after a brush with a few other thugs, or with another resisting with lead the intrusion of some scores of New York police into his apartment. And the past year has seen an unusually large number...