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Through travelers hand their passports to the French porter, are seldom disturbed by frontier passport control officers except for a quick glance, or occasionally at night a rap on the compartment door and the stab of a flashlight. If suspected of being a spy, the thing to do is to raise a terrific hubbub and demand that the express be held while you telegraph the nearest U. S. Legation which in the Balkans will reply faster than you would think. Usually the express will wait...
...Sian, capital of China during the Ts'in, Han and T'ang dynasties (246 B.C.-907 A.D.). As opened last week the railway is the newest link in a line that strikes 650 miles into Central China, connects Sian with Shanghai, Nanking and Peiping. Later it will stab on 400 miles further to Lanchow, remote outpost just south of the Great Wall. All last week excited passengers, most of whom had galloped in on horseback to see a train for the first time in their lives, rode the new railway on "shuttle excursions" up & clown the line...
...opened or in other words the abdominal cavity was not laid open. There practically no loss blood except what was expected on making superficial incision and consequently no risk for any post-operative hemorrhage. Incision was closed completely leaving small rubber tubing as drain. The tube was inserted by stab near the incision leading to neighborhood of opening made in ureter. Technical name for this trouble is calculus or stone in ureter or ureterolithiasis. Operation for removal stone on left ureter is ureterolithotomy. ?Januario R. Estrada...
...orator. But altogether unusual was the Senate's action when the soldier-orator had an even greater fame as an antiChristian, a man who, were he still alive, would have picked up the prayerful chaplain's "rules of reason" and used the phrase as a knife to stab the Senate's faith in God. For the man to be honored by the statue authorized by S. J. Res. 21 was no other than Robert Green Ingersoll. Since 1930 the Freethinkers have been collecting funds to erect a statue of their agnostic hero, first planning to dedicate...
...offers this vital service. Only one trained in the science of vocational guidance-can do such work. It is a profession by itself, and no person shifted afternoons from Lehman Hall can really fulfill this specialized function. If the University wishes to make anything more than a half-hearted stab at a problem which it has confessed to be important, then it ought to secure the part time services of an expert in this field. A University can render hardly any greater service than the prevention of misfits; and the helpful guidance of men into the most genial careers...