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...doctor clamped his forceps to the gash, left the silver handles hanging. The victor's second caught a smear of blood on a calling card. Doctors and judges agreed the wound was serious enough to end the fight. With the doctor, the vanquished youth moved away, holding up the forceps to keep their weight from his gashed cheek...
...potato was more significant than the money. After biologists had fooled around with the tuberculosis bacillus for almost 50 years, they had developed two standard methods of discovering the bacilli in sputum. One was to stain a smear with dyes and search for the germs with a microscope. That was crude and inaccurate. The other was to inject suspected sputum into guinea pigs, creatures unusually susceptible to tuberculosis. That was slow and expensive. A quicker, surer method of diagnosis was needed...
...Angel of the Lord bade Moses tell his people that when the Passover came they should sacrifice lambs and smear their doors with the blood, that the Angel of Death, passing by, might know where righteous men lived. Long after the death of Moses, Jews celebrated their Passover with the death of lambs; and in the ghettos of walled cities, there were bloody marks upon the doors. In the Middle Ages, when the Jews were hated most bitterly by Christians, the legend arose that the blood upon their doors was that of Christian children whom Jews deemed the most suitable...
Robinson: "... I think Franklin K. Lane bore a very high reputation . . . but Senators on the other side of the Chamber have not hesitated to go down into the tomb for Republicans who have passed away. . . . Democrats attempt to smear oil all over dead Republicans. But if we merely mention a man who perchance happens to be a Democrat, then something is wrong...
...four Senators quickly cleansed their names of the Hearstian smear, in downright statements. Senator Heflin was most agitated. He roared about "scalawags, crooks and scoundrels." In the course of his protestimony he was obliged to tell about receiving money from the Ku Klux Klan for his anti-Roman Catholic orations...