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...high blood pressure lies in the fact that it leads to degeneration and to hardening of the arteries. The high tension represents considerable wear and tear on the blood vessels. The smaller arteries suffer the most because of their delicate structure. Although the walls of the arteries become thicker with increasing blood pressure, they have less resistance than the normal elastic vessels...
...describes the general external characteristics in the adult male which distinguish the Mountain from the Coast Gorilla as, "a longer palate and often a narrower skull, a thicker pelage or belt, shorter arms and longer legs, large amount of black hair, and prominent fleshy callosity on the chest...
...When his hair was thicker. Clarence Hungerford Mackay took his favorite barber on many a trip...
Comparing Authors Renn and Remarque, most readers will decide that, despite their obvious similarity, Author Renn, thicker-skinned through a blind patriotism, has not the subjective depth of Author Remarque. In comparison, War will seem psychologically shallow, less moving...
...final swirl, Boris, with others, got into an automobile and was driven off through crowded streets to the Capitol: a monstrous building with a domed centre, .the like of which you never see in the Balkans. A nipping wind blew up from the Potomac. The clouds were growing thicker. Boris was distressed...