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...First symptoms of the illness appeared in August, 1921, when I was thoroughly tired from overwork. I first had a chill in the evening which lasted practically all night. The following morning the muscles of the right knee appeared weak and by afternoon I was unable to support my weight on my right leg. That evening the left knee began to weaken also and by the following morning I was unable to stand up. This was accompanied by a continuing temperature of about 102 and I felt thoroughly achy all over. By the end of the third day practically...
...ruined streets of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are now filled with Japs who have small tufts of hair beginning to grow back on their slick pates. Temporary baldness is one symptom of radiation injury. A variation of the injury was discovered among a herd of red cattle grazing some 50 miles from last summer's test bombing in New Mexico. Radioactive dust settled on their backs, turned the red hair white in small splotches...
...verbal lashings dealt the Senator, by everyone eventually, even Cousin Roy. Yet it would have been quite consistent with the earlier portrayal of the old Bourbon if he had been led to recant his bigotry. But one failing more irksome on reflection than apparent on sight, is perhaps a symptom of the in growth of prejudice, in this instance to the very actors, or the director. A strained match between Howard and Alice seems to be justification enough for several chilly kisses, while the warm and central love between Nevvy and Brett finds itself in words only, even in proposing...
Like many an old-school newspaperman, George W. Greene, publisher of the Waupun (Wis.) Leader-News, suffered from a familiar occupational disease. His own peculiar symptom was a devotion to what he calls New England boiled dinners (bourbon & water) for breakfast. Now he wanted his 3,127 readers to know that he was a changed man. Wrote he: "This is probably the strangest editorial you ever read. It is the strangest one I ever expect to write...
...American had probed beneath surface technicalities. To him, the violation of international treaties was an aggravating circumstance; the German invasion of Poland would have been a crime without it?. German-Polish non-aggression pact. The treaties' existence was important to Jackson chiefly as a symptom that the world's conscience had begun to view aggression and war as evils that must be punished. Said he: "Plain people ... revolted at such fictions [as war's legality] and legalisms so contrary to ethical principles, and demanded checks on war immunity...