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After that effort, the men go above to make their compartments shipshape, swab the decks, and shower. Then down to breakfast, at which musters have been taken since the Medical Department got worried over the number of absentees...
...painful, sometimes fatal disease, spread by relatives of the syphilis spirochete, which first invade the gums, may later migrate to tonsils, salivary glands and lungs. Trench mouth is most prevalent in summertime when campers use common utensils and cups. To kill the trench mouth spirochete, doctors usually swab their patients' swollen gums with hydrogen peroxide, silver salts or arsphenamine, prescribe mouthwashes of sodium perborate. But such treatment usually lasts for many weeks...
...backward to shun official political relationships. To bellow that Harvard has a desire to rule Cambridge, and that therefore it must, like some naughty school boy, be expelled from the community, serves only to show the political hue of the picture. The council's cunning brush is attempting to swab Harvard with such brilliant and tawdry colors, that beside it Plan E may look dull, important, and anaemic on the ballot...
...stockings. 3) To protect the face, use a 50% alcoholic solution of thymol, or oil of cloves in lanolin. 4) If bitten, apply immediately a weak solution of ammonia, washing soda, or soap and vinegar. A cut onion will also relieve the sting. 5) If the bite is painful, swab it with iodine in glycerin...
...conscious volcano is the uneasy seat of President Frederick Bertrand Robinson. Dr. Robinson never tires of asserting that a talented person can succeed equally in any field of endeavor. In support of this theory he boasts that he takes up something new every year - painting, etching, cello playing or swab bing decks on a freighter. In 1933, when pacifists blocked his way to an R. O. T. C. review in the college stadium, he won nationwide notice by belaboring them with his umbrella, later confiding "I think I got twelve" (TIME, June 5, 1933). In 1934 he stormed "Guttersnipes...