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...first Underwood in Korea (while it was still the Hermit Kingdom) was Grandfather Horace Grant Underwood, who went there as Korea's first Protestant missionary in 1885. Though Seoul was swarming with cholera (Koreans call it "the rat in the stomach disease") old Dr. Underwood used to stride about unscathed in his black buttoned-up coat and white tie. He was extremely proud of the fact that he was the only ordained Calvinist in the city. Later he married a medical missionary, Lillias Horton, who became physician to Korea's Queen Min. Soon the Underwoods and the royal...
...shillings (40?) is the totalizator minimum bet. But greyhound bookies. who wear bowlers and an air of everlasting love for bettors, jump to take a one bob wager. They pride themselves on paying off faster than the tote, take ?1,000 bets as well as one bob wagers in stride. Around their stalls at White City and Wembley, crisp ?5 notes (the largest now printed) crackle like pine kindling...
MacDonald believes, however, that the team he fields tomorrow will he as good as any during the year. In his post game talk Wednesday, he concluded, "The team has finally begun to function like a machine. They have hit their stride...
...Italian surrender brought an hour as high as the hour of French surrender at Compiègne had been low. They had ripped the southern rampart of a Festung crumbling in the east, flung the certainty of defeat at Adolf Hitler and his panicky satellites, put themselves a long stride toward the heart of Europe and final victory...
Viruses. A stride toward identifying the viruses responsible for many ills, from the common cold to infantile paralysis, was reported by the Rockefeller Institute's Dr. Max A. Lauffer. His colleague Dr. Wendell M. Stanley had advanced the theory that one virus (tobacco mosaic) was a giant protein molecule which, contrary to the usual behavior of molecules, can reproduce itself within living cells. To prove this theory, Dr. Lauffer used a high-speed whirling machine that works like a cream separator. He whirled a solution of tobacco mosaic protein, to separate the protein molecules from the rest...