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...cartridge cases, of canteens; and also horse collars, paper aprons, body armor, hand grenades, lances, machine guns, artillery maps, gas masks, trench pickaxes, badges, feed and saddle bags, ball bearings, curb bits, paper cloth, tug chains, tea, coffee, and food-tins, trench cups, paper wagon-curtains, wire cutters, sack fillers, forks and spoons, burlap halters, holsters, mess kits, fur-covered knapsacks, canvas knapsacks, saber knots, trench lanterns, flamethrower nozzles, ornaments, sweat pads, tent pins, tent poles, a paper rein, ropes, saddles, saws, shovels, spurs, straps, stirrups, sur-cingles, paper tape, torches, traces, a paper whip, wagons, carts, other vehicles, empty...
...England, flour has been marked up in price four times in a single week. A sack of flour now costs $3.25 more than before the rise in wheat started. Roughly every 75? advance on the flour sack means a penny more for a loaf of bread. Already the four-pound loaf has jumped from 16? to 19?. First and last, it is estimated that the present increase in British bread will call for the payment by England of about $90,000,000 to foreign wheat-exporting countries...
...people. There is the story of the strong-man Graff 1, who played Ursus in the opera Quo Vadis, and had to hold the prima donna in his arms for ten minutes at a time. "But oh," wails Jeritza, "how many times did I wish he were holding a sack of flour instead of myself! He had muscles like ridged steel. Resting on them was about as comfortable as lying on a pile of steel bars. I used to dread that fourth act like a trip to the dentist." There was also Leo Slezak, who "is very stout...
...after rolling over and over on the grass, rose smiling and dizzy to throw to second base, in order to put out Halated, who had apparently fallen asleep between second and third. After all this, in his dizziness he threw into the river instead of to the waiting, second sack...
Heart. One of the orifices of the heart of a 14-year old girl was so small the heart could not function. Death seemed inevitable. A surgeon opened the sack which enfolds the heart. He exposed the heart itself. While it beat, he inserted his finger into the orifice, opened it. Then the sack was closed, and slowly the patient recovered...