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Looking eastward, residents of the Mississippi Basin saw another spectacle, at Washington. After months of wrangling, a committee of the House last week reported a flood-control measure to Congress. But the smoke of conflict, instead of trailing away, was just beginning to thicken. "The greatest fight this session" instead of a national necessity was what Congress was prepared to supply...
...hear the winding of aerial horns Thicken the air I gasp to breathe . . . I clinch twin burdens to my fading cinder breast...
...contraction of the heart and the arteries go on without effort in perfect team play. But when the heart-in the worn-out or sick- must push the blood in abnormal amount or at too great speed through the arteries, these stretch, lose their elasticity, their contractile powers. They thicken in spots: thin in others. Them too the blood tries to heal; brings serum to weak spots, serum which turns gelatinous, gelatine which hardens, calcifies. The arteries become ropy, then hard like the stems of clay pipes. The patient has hardening of the arteries...
Lawful Larceny. As indicated by the title there is a deal of stealing to thicken the plot. Vigorous vampires wriggle from man to man extracting signed checks. Somebody cracks a safe. Then the injured wife sets things right by turning crook and stealing everything back...
...when a thing is so cheap, and abundant as water, and withal so necessary, we might have the pure article. The water furnished at Memorial is naturally a little turbid. But the animals which now infest it are conspicuous, even among the floating particles of lint which thicken it. If anyone will take the trouble to look in his glass in the morning he will see them skipping about in high glee. Better water than this can be found in any pond. If set on any other table than in Memorial Hall it would be thought an outrage. The only...