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...each child entered the room, Dr. Salk's secretary handed him a test tube bearing the youngster's name and control numbers. Time and again, in answer to an anxious "Wotta they gonna do?" she explained the procedure softly and reassuringly. Working in twos, nurses slipped a needle into a vein in the hollow of the child's elbow (what doctors call the antecubital fossa) and snapped a vacuum seal. Immediately the tube began to fill with blood. Most of the youngsters watched with impersonal detachment, and girls were no more upset by the sight of blood...
...twos and threes the band straggled into Memorial Hall. Freshmen with their forlorn, shivering dates stood waiting under the feet of John Harvard, restless upperclassmen tried to study but strained to hear the stirring sounds of "Crimson in Triumph Flashing": the Princeton football rally was about to start...
...invitation" hymn (Almost Persuaded) to wavering sinners, Billy's voice speaks out again, this time in a coaxing, soothing register: "Come on . . . We're waitin' on you. Don't you want to be born again? . . . You come on, now." Down the aisles, by ones and twos, and then in groups, they come...
...Free German Youth) members should quit work at 2:30 p.m. to join in. Truckloads of blueshirts came from camps, others poured by trolley and subway into assembly points along Berlin's east-west border. In ones and twos the Reds drifted casually into the Western sectors, suddenly congealed into solid, marching columns in three separate districts...
What the committee does is to split into twos and eat at the various dining halls three times a month, receive student gripes and suggestions, and look for things that need improvement. They make notes on the menus offered the days they visit without warning...