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Throughout the week Berliners gradually resumed their normal health and spirits after a period of torpor induced by the consumption of the following yuletide viands, as estimated by Der Tag: 3½ million pounds of meat, chiefly geese and heavy cuts suitable for roasting; slightly under one million pounds of carp, the traditional and indispensable dish of the German for Christmas Eve; 4 million eggs; 1 million pounds of sugar; 125 tons of fruits and nuts; and "at least 210 million marks' worth of beer and wine...
...veins after previous injections of morphine or scopolamine, produces anesthesia complete enough for the longest and most serious operation. "This sopo- rific has all the effectiveness of chloroform without its disadvan- tages." No sickness follows it. No ill effects on liver and kidneys. The patient remains plunged in torpor from 24 to 36 hours afterwards, but can be roused for a few minutes at a time to take nourishment...
...women are fouler-mouthed than the men, and of course there is not an attractive character from cover to cover The only note in the book is the monotone on the morhid, while as a substitute for rational analysis of the mind, Mr. Sergel, in typical post-impressionistic torpor, prefers the less exacting formula of adjectives . . . and . . . dots...
That an insufficient number of teams have enrolled to make the Leiter Cup Series practical intimates that baseball enthusiasts are pre-occupied with new interests, or are still in their winter torpor. Considering the immediate success of the new coaching staff, a baseball system similar to the football system may evolve this year. Under this stimulus aspirants for a hand in future puddings might be expected to practice on the Leiter cups. As efficiency is a desirable asset rather than a requirement, of the scrub teams, the restraint of training never forbids a "Leiter cupper" to enter where joy invites...
They have shown that, given a live subject, that hits him, the undergraduate will shake off the torpor of indifference that too often marks his attitude toward current affairs, and will take up the cudgels with vehemence...