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...held up and only escaped after two hours delay. So confident in his success did Mr. Meyer become that he did not hesitate to give his wife a summons for Sunday driving. Before the irate Justice was placated the police force of six had 5000 cars in line to straighten out, and for next week Justice Meyer threatens more and better laws to enforce. At any rate he is true to his principles as a theater owner. Prevented from giving the public entertainment in the more customary way, he supplied it in another and more original form. "The show must...
...closing innings the Crimson hitters began to find the offerings of the Holy Cross southpaw and straighten them out for solid hits where before they had dribbled feebly to the infield. There were two men on base, none out, and trembling hesitancy in the Holy Cross stands in the ninth when A. G. Whitney '29 lashing a screaming line drive to deep left center. Captain Savage, who was Harvard's Jonah for the day, appeared from nowhere and speared the ball backhanded with his gloved hand. Cutts followed with a double, but the next two batters died. R. C. Sullivan...
Persuaded by his skilled publicity, Sadie Holland went to Dr. Schireson for removal of her shoulder scar. He suggested that he could also straighten her legs for the $800. She consented. While he cut at the scar, Dr. Zaph (he says) worked thus: "The flesh [of a leg] was bared to the bone; an electric saw was used to cut wedges from the main leg bone, or tibia, and then the wound was sewed up. The limb was then placed in a cast and then left to straighten itself out as the wedge closed together." He added...
...style of the essays is sentimental, faintly whimsical, but is lacking in any real humor. But the book is perhaps suitable for a parlor table where its gay binding would add a note of colour and its very short essays allow you time to straighten your tie before welcoming your caller. If this be faint praise, let it be said that the another and his publishers could hardly have intended the book for anything more than the lightest of light reading...
...electricity and gravitation. So said Professor Edmund Taylor Whittaker of Edinburg University. He offered some propositions: that if the gravitation of a planet could vary rapidly, an electrified body in the field of attraction would emit radiation; that "gravi-tation simply represents a continued effort of the universe to straighten itself...