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...thought of the number of Senatorial voices, otherwise forgotten, which Reporter Shuey may recollect in his dreams. Even in waking moments, he recalls the ponderous thunder of Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, the swift clipped words of James Paul Clarke of Arkansas "who could touch 210 a minute," the bitter snarl of Marion Butler of North Carolina...
...larvae develop within the mosquito. Later the insect bites another human, disgorging at the instant one or more tiny worms. They burrow into the victim, seek out a lymph node, breed. Batches of them snarl themselves in the lymph passages causing inflammation, which blocks the free passage of lymph through the body. It backs up, causing swellings, particularly of the legs and groin in the Antilles. Affected parts grow massy. The skin thickens and crinkles like an elephant's. Hence the name elephantiasis for one aspect of the disease...
...finished a perfect season by tumbling the Utah Aggies, 26-7. Nebraska-Big Six champions though tied by Missouri and Oklahoma-trounced eleven Iowa Statesmen made wild but not dangerous by six beatings in a row. Nebraska 31, Iowa State 12. Georgia's little bulldogs put on the snarl they wore for Yale at the start of the season. Nice passes and a fake end run made them 12, Alabama 0. Kicks were the important thing in weather that made fingers too stiff to catch passes. Stevens's leg was a shade stronger than Joyce's. Syracuse...
...Institute International Exhibition of Paintings opened last week in Pittsburgh. On Founder's Day the afternoon before the doors were opened to the public, prize winners were announced. By that time the jury had dispersed. Painters and critics, never much pleased at Carnegie juries' selections, began to snarl, declaring that the canvases were picked by admen and suitable only for reproduction in Sunday supplements. This year no great name was accorded a prize. The first award was won by Felice Carena of Italy, whose picture The Studio was largest in the exhibition. It depicts the interior...
Events at the Hague Conference were in such a desperate snarl last week as Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden continued bickering for a bigger piece in the reparations "sponge cake" (TIME, Aug. 12 et seq.), that progress could best be traced in terms of personages...