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Still, assuming that no Harvard men get lost in the woods and that Hamlin manages not to get stomach cramp, Harvard is a slight favorite...
...surgery begins, the cellular engine may have already shrunk from starvation (for example, that caused by cancer of the gullet or stomach), from infection, or from the storage of excess water, as in the edema that goes with congestive heart failure. The faltering engine gradually loses its power to deliver blood-borne nutrients to the muscles. Then the most vulnerable points, said Dr. Moore, are in the diaphragm and the muscles between the ribs. And the effects are most severe on breathing and coughing. The cause of death in surgical patients, he said, is seldom found in the heart, brain...
...Stomach Rumblings. Standard & Poor's got its start in 1860 when Henry Varnum Poor brought out the granddaddy of investment publications, The History of the Railroads and Canals of the U.S., got its present name after a 1941 merger with the 35-year-old Standard Statistics Bureau, another investment advisory firm. Getting the facts is so important to Standard & Poor's that even dignified President Frederick A. Stahl, 57, who in 34 years with S. & P. worked his way from statistician through almost every phase of the company to the presidency three years ago, spends most...
Macario's wish is instantly fulfilled by his wife (Pina Pellicer). She steals a turkey, kills and cooks it, tells her husband to eat it while his hungry children are asleep. Stomach overcomes conscience, and Macario runs off to the woods. But just as he opens his mouth to eat the bird, the Devil appears, dressed as a dashing caballero...
Author White has a fine, sweaty flair for physical detail: "The foreman stood there twiddling the hairs of his left armpit and breathing through his mouth." He has a grand ear for gossip: "I never take nothing substantial of an evening," clucks one old hen to another. "My stomach would create on retiring." And, above all, he has felicity and precision in his use of word and image: "Though her words were dead," he says of a social lioness, "the shape and colour of their sentiments were irreproachable, like those green hydrangeas of the last phase, less a flower than...