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...HOGARTH. Though in medieval times England produced her full share of significant art, the centuries thereafter were stagnant ones. It was not until William Hogarth, a London hackwriter's son, born in 1697, that English art took on a personality of its own. For Hogarth, London was a stage, and when he painted and engraved the progress of his rakes and harlots like acts in a play, or when he opened the innards of Bedlam and Gin Lane, he caught the drama of England's lower depths as no other artist had. These works thrust upon English...
...Upheld a jury verdict awarding $625,000 damages to a man whose legs were amputated as a result of an infection traced to an insect bite. James Gallick, a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad crew foreman, had been bitten by a "large insect" (species unknown) while working near a pool of stagnant and putrid water on railroad property in Cleveland. In his suit, Gallick held that the insect would not have been there to bite him if it had not been for the pool. The railroad's lawyers argued that the connections if any, between the water and what happened...
...Economy 'Stagnant...
Capacity to import is tied directly to export earnings and is therefore stagnant as well. Excluding Venezuela, which sparked an extraordinary $803 million injection of dollars for itself by selling oil concessions in 1957, Latin America had only a little more cash available for imports in 1961 ($7.19 billion) than it did four years before ($7.17 billion). To make matters worse, says the report, "the population of Latin America grew by approximately 12% during the period. Consequently, per capita capacity to import has tended to decline...
...only way to get completely rid of them is to destroy their breeding places. Finally, the city authorities are trying to do just that by cleaning up yards and empty lots, getting rid of old tin cans, coconut husks and automobile tires, and everything else capable of holding stagnant water...