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...name "Toc H" has an interesting and rather odd origin. During the War, when it was necessary to signal the name "Talbot", it was found difficult to make it or "Tal" understood "Toc", which has a more definite and sharp sound, was used as the solution of the problem The name has remained, and is that by which the society is known the world over...
...crowds, voices rough with cheering, rose from the robin's egg blue stands, and settled them selves in $40,000,000 worth of au- tomobiles. F. Ambrose Clark's tal ly-ho wound its horn and dashed away. Out over the magic carpet swarmed 51 brown men, armed with stomps. They mended the magic carpet, smoothing the hoof cuts of the ponies. Next week the magic carpet would be smooth and green again and the thousands gather for the series' second game...
...which carried this process of reducing the safeguard of capital cases to the final limit. The court shall be held by one of the justices, and when so held shall have and exercise all the power and jurisdiction committed to said court": the section making special provision for capi- tal cases was repealed (Acts and Resolves, 1910, 555). This is the present situation. The General Laws of 1921 simply state that "The court shall be held by one of the justices" (212,2); and that. "The court shall have original jurisdiction of all crimes" (212, 6), provision being made...
...week, nearly seven and a half years later, the veteran Earl of Bal- four (Arthur James Balfour ennobled) set forth from the land of his ancestors for the Holy Land. Some days later, he arrived at Alex- andria, Egypt's greatest seaport. Thence went he to Cairo, the capi- tal, where he entered a special railway car provided by the Palestine Government and was whisked off across the Suez Canal to Palestine, land of two religions: Judaism, Christianity.* Lord Balfour went to Jerusalem, direct to Government House on the Mount of Olives. On a spur of the Mount of Olives...
...wandering needles, fractured bones, molar cavities they have located, Röntgen or X-rays have levied heavy toll on the flesh of Science. Last week, the press carried accounts of Dr. Frederick H. Baetjer, Professor of Röntgenology at Johns Hopkins University, who has undergone 52 digi- tal amputations in 16 years as the result of continuous work with X-rays. Burns from malignant constituents of the rays induce a disintegration of the tissues called radiodermitis. Dr. Baetjer's sacrifices to his work now total eight fingers...