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...stacked gunpowder in Parliament's vaulted cellar. He lost his head instead of his King. Since then, the King's way has always been prepared by a search of the cellar. Ordinarily, this is a job for the Beefeaters, who go about it in resplendent tabards of scarlet and gold...
...that it was not finished when you were sick. All right, dear child. There is no reason why anyone should die of smallpox. I am inspiring the doctors to vaccinate everybody. Once vaccinated, they will be protected from smallpox.' " Serapia explained that immunization for diphtheria and scarlet fever could also save children's lives and that it was her mission to tell other children's mothers about it. The fable concludes: "Soon there will be no more disease. Because everybody will be vaccinated...
...planted 200 Victory gardens, studied 50 languages and dialects, done exercises graduated from toe-wiggling in bed to ten-mile hikes with full packs. The hospitals find that under the A.A.F. system 1) 25% fewer men have relapses; 2) convalescence from certain acute, contagious diseases (e.g., virus pneumonia, scarlet fever and measles) has been...
...father, the late Civil War mutton provisioner P. A. B. Widener I - along with a gilt-edged collection of (chiefly Renaissance) Old Masters. He stabled such thoroughbreds as Fair Play (Man o' War's sire), steeplechaser Arc Light, and Osmond (his favorite), mounted in his white & scarlet such jockeys as the great Earle Sande. A veteran plunger on his stable's strains and silks (in 1927 he was allowed stable-loss tax reductions of $800,000), he placed no bets on canvases after the mid-19th Century's Edouard Manet, preferred art's more-than...
...Crimson is favored to bring home the scarlet and gray crew shirts in at least two of tomorrow's contests. The best conditioned and strongest Harvard crew on the Charles this season, the 150's stroked by Bill Malcolm, last year's 150 stroke, are favorites to beat M. I. T.'s three entrants, while the Freshmen are scheduled to take their race with the Tech third heavies. The J. V. race is practically a toss-up with the Engineers possibly having the edge...