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...went to the polls last Sunday to elect seven governors and the 147 mem bers of its Chamber of Deputies. The day was warm, picnics popular, voting light and the closing days of the campaign comparatively dull. Results: two dead; eleven wounded; five students beaten; a woman arrested for shin-kicking her husband's opponent; the incumbent P.R.M. (Party of the Mexican Revolution) apparent winner of approximately 140 seats...
...game series with Brooklyn, they gave the Dodgers the bum's rush, 8-to-2. They lost the second game on a seventh-inning homer, 3-to 2. The Sunday doubleheader, played in steam-kettle heat, was all Brooklyn, 9-to-4, 6-to-0. But townsfolk fought shin and elbow to welcome the Phillies home...
...have had nearly 100 cases in one day. I have counted over 40 large ulcers, as big as a shilling, on each of the legs of one man. The ulcers are deep and painful, penetrating to the muscles, and sometimes destroying 50% of the skin of calf and shin...
...slap her face, she learned Art's most cherished trade secret: One Must Suffer. She also taught it to Cinemactor Cummings. Cummings, a gentle young man, could not bring himself, after 22 tries, to sock Diana hard enough. At the 23rd take she kicked him in the shin with her high heel and he smacked her knock-kneed. Said Diana, without rancor: "If I hadn't done something, it could have gone on like that...
China has been combed for plants poisonous to insects by Dr. Shin Foon Chiu, Cornell graduate. One of his finds tested at Cornell by Dr. Roy Hansberry is Millettia pachycarpa, which bears seeds as big as small walnuts. Dr. Hansberry found Millettia to be as effective as rotenone dust, but the plant is not yet grown in quantity...