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...Colds are afflictions rather than infections," said ruddy, husky Dr. Kerr flatly. "I do not believe .that a great majority of the diseases of the upper respiratory tract are virus infections like flu or grippe-most of them are 'just colds...
...those novels that may have the undesired effect of cheapening a fair cause. In this instance the cause is the right of the Catholic Church to teach and sustain Christianity in its own way. To some extent. The Cardinal is an outright, often vigorous pro-church tract that ploddingly touches on nearly everything from birth control to Author Robinson's view of the church's view on separation of church and state. But the author has included so many banal fictional tricks that both tract and story quickly reach a sustained level of stupendous boredom...
...well-known place. for there, on a hill overlooking the town of Harvard, stands the biggest of the University's chain of Observatories, boasting the largest reflector telescope cast of the Mississippi River. Begun in 1932, the station now has 13 buildings, centered in a 50-acre tract, and instruments ranging in size from the "patrol cameras" to the giant 61-inch reflector...
...station is higher than much of the surrounding countryside, and is protected from cold and wind only by the many birch and pine trees on the tract. Russel Anderson, superintendent of the station, points out that, without these trees, Oak Ridge would not be suitable for the Observatory...
...snatches the young." A baby may be overwhelmed in a few hours by a disease of such an "explosive" type that no symptoms are showing when the child is put to bed. Most of the explosive diseases which kill infants in bed (sometimes by suffocation) involve the upper respiratory tract, ears or heart...