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...night U. S. Chief Delegate Hugh Gibson addressed the U. S. public by radio in reassuring terms. Next day a correspondent of great courage and some spleen, Frank H. Simonds of Manhattan's Evening Post, flatly accused not only Mr. Gibson but the chief delegates of other Great Powers of deliberately trying to mislead world public opinion...
...immunologist at the Henry Phipps Institute of the University of Pennsylvania, a onetime worker at the Rockefeller Institute, won the gold medal for his demonstration of experimental leucemia. Leucemia is a blood disease closely resembling cancer. The blood contains abnormally vast numbers of white blood cells. Usually the spleen and liver are hugely enlarged. Bone marrow is usually affected. Dr. Furth isolated a virus from leucemic chickens. The virus stimulated leucemia in other chickens. He got a virus from leucemic mice, which affected other mice deleteriously. Presumably a virus causes human leucemia. Chicken virus does not affect mice, nor vice...
...both. This is of course an infringement on free speech, and affects the serious historian as much as the sensational debunker. One shudders to think of the day when history will be under the direct control of the politicians, and no unorthodox writer will be safe from the patriotic spleen of some office-seeker without an issue...
...over a field goal. Once Booth nearly got away but Bill Ticknor pulled him down by the back of his sweater. Harvard 10, Yale 6. Unhappy sequel: Victor Harding Jr., of Hubbard Woods, Ill., Harvard end, complained of fierce stomach pains after a scrimmage in the third quarter. His spleen was ruptured, had to be removed...
...spleen is a ductless lymphatic-like gland touching the top of the left kidney. It manufactures white blood cells and, when necessary, red blood cells. Its removal does not cause serious consequences...