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Reading eyes grow blurred, skip words and lines. Heads ache, nerves twitch, stomachs misbehave. Students fail in their classes. Motorists and aviators misjudge distances, sometimes fatally. Many a person so afflicted has gone from one eye doctor to another, without relief. He was suffering from no ailment known to ophthalmology...
...mannequin show with a band, girls and dresses. An extraordinary chorus dance in the exotic style of Rockefeller Center Music Hall is done by girls in pastel -spangled, long -trained dresses. They wade, twitch, writhe. The result is effective...
Past summer school belles have acquired great noteriety among incoming Harvard for leaving various femine unmentionables hanging around. These articles are often dangled on the chandeliers as trophies of former triumphs and the tales circulated about them would take the most broad-minded of schoolmarms twitch uneasily. But it is easy to say that one of these Freshman has profited by their example in ten easy lessons. For lately a broken leg cast was found luxuriously occupying an entire bureau draw in Hollis. Some Harvard butterfly had indeed shed its cocoon...
...Congressman from this district), judge pro tem., was that one James Brown had taken his horse to Royston's blacksmith shop to have it shod. It was limping badly, having been without shoes for a year. The horse kept lying down, making the shoeing difficult. He tried a "twitch" on it. but this failed to work. Then following what he said had been the advice of experts, he took hold of the horse's tongue and was told to hang on to it until the blacksmith completed putting the shoes on the horse. But a few minutes later...
...matter how hard Japan sat on the Chinese dragon's head there was still many a good twitch in its tail. Reports persisted that Lwanchow, strategic city on the south bank of the Lwan River, was still being held last week by its Chinese defenders despite repeated Japanese attacks. Most surprising news came from Berlin...