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...Neffzer in Vienna in 1815-when Hornblower and the Vicomtesse de Graçay were temporarily holding Bonaparte's regulars at bay along the Loire. A similar tact touches Professor Parkinson's handling of the then Lieutenant Hornblower's heretofore unsuspected murder of Captain David Sawyer (H.M.S. Renown, 74 guns) on the West Indies station in 1800.* A pedant or a gross popularizer would have made much of the incident, but Parkinson, clearly not wanting to perplex inattentive readers, presents it in Appendix 2, reproducing a letter from Hornblower to his descendants that was not made public...
Armed with this knowledge, Effler began performing Vineberg implants on patients suffering from angina pectoris, the crippling pain that signals insufficient blood supply to heart muscles. But other surgeons, still skeptical, concentrated on alternative approaches. Dr. Philip Sawyer of New York's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn developed a method of using pressurized carbon dioxide gas to separate the inner and outer walls of an artery so that the fat adhering to the arterial lining could be more easily removed. Others experimented with widening clogged arteries by inserting gussets made from pieces of the patient's saphenous vein...
...other pre-Civil War, Mississippi Valley traditions. Perhaps because for many in the audience, suspense is precluded by knowledge of the book, while, for the rest, the bare precis that remains appears emotionally shallow, Huck's journey down the Mississippi lacks even the rudimentary sense of adventure that Tom Sawyer would demand of such an undertaking. And when Bergreen abruptly telescopes the last third of Twain's novel to arrive at a moral and a finis simultaneously, even the impatient are apt to feel more cheated than relieved...
...Paul's admissions director Richard Sawyer maintained that admission figures "look about as they did five years ago," although he appeared unwilling to talk about the exact numbers. St. Paul's, a traditionally upper-crusty church school, will go co-ed next year. but Sawyer feels that this will not have any significant effect on the number of applications...
...been equally successful with an assortment of magical home remedies. There is documentary evidence that warts have disappeared after being touched with a copper penny or a slice of raw potato, which is then buried during a full moon. Some sufferers insist that they have found relief in Tom Sawyer's prescription for "spunk water" (rain from a tree stump in the woods). Still others have employed the services of some old women in the hills of northeastern Kentucky who are said to cure warts merely by touching them...