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...France liked this game so much that in his time people said there were more tennis-players in Paris than drunkards in England. Complicated then, it is even more complicated now by centuries of innovation. The court is longer, wider than a-lawn tennis court, a sagging net strung across the middle; a roofed gallery or "penthouse" near the ceiling, running around three walls, sloping from ten and a half to seven feet from the floor; an opening in the righthand corner of the end wall on the receiving side called the "grille"; an opening in the end wall...
From the throat of Ruth M. McKinney, one of the graduate staff working for a doctor's degree, they secured the most useful cultures. It was of the polymorphous streptococcus. It "looks like a microscopic chain of unmatched beads which a child has strung together." When this germ collects into minute, smooth colonies in the blood, it causes a cold or mild influenza. When the colonies become rough, the influenza grows severe, virulent. With the specific cause of influenza thus recognized, an intelligent way of treatment and a vaccine for prevention lies in purview...
...plucked or twanged the strings either with their fingers or a plectrum. Because of its spoon-shaped body the instrument cannot be confused with the modern guitar which has a flat bottom joined to the sound board by separate ribs. In appearance it is more like the mongrel, wire-strung mandolin...
...completed and anchored in place, ready to receive tourist planes and to entertain travelers on man's newest conquest of an element. As the operation of the Langley makes money, he will (and he has the money in provision to do so) construct eight similar seadromes to be strung 375 miles apart between the 35th and 40th parallels, north latitude, between Long Island and Plymouth. The 375 miles is an easy jump for any plane. Hence the project presages safe and convenient airplane passage across the ocean, direct competition with both sea ships and air ships. Flying time between...
...crucial moment Cesare Rossi refused to keep quiet under blame and figuratively cried "Murderer!" at the man who had made him. Followed jail, interminable proceedings, and a lucky escape in a small motorboat to Nice. Safe in France, General Rossi exclaimed "I would like to have Mussolini strung up higher than any yardarm pirate would string...