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...Harry's Father, Richard Evelyn Byrd Sr., a successful criminal lawyer, made unsuccessful investments, died poor. He left three sons, Tom, Dick and Harry. Tom grew up to be an apple grower. Dick was regarded as something of a sissy and in the course of time developed an uncommon interest in the North and South Poles. Harry likes to record that at the age of 15 he was a newspaper publisher, farmer and apple grower. His paper was the Win chester Evening Star which had a circulation of 700 or 800 and a much larger debt. He persuaded...
Diaphragmatic hernia is a not uncommon rupture of the horizontal muscle which separates the heart and lungs from the stomach and intestines. Dr. Philemon Edwards Truesdale of Fall River, Mass. repairs diaphragmatic hernia with such skill that the American Medical Association gave him a gold medal for his operative technique. Last month the Press made a great sentimental to-do about one Alyce Jane McHenry, 10, of Omaha who, born with a ruptured diaphragm, was sped cross-country to Fall River and Dr. Truesdale's Hospital for an operation. Last week Dr. Truesdale, home from a leisurely Caribbean cruise...
...fixed by Lenin, Soviet tradition provides for voting by show of hands in the local Soviets. These elect higher Soviets which vote similarly by show of hands clear up through the All-Union Congress of Soviets (see above). Since in Russia it takes uncommon courage to get up in meeting and oppose the Communist Party, Comrade Lenin considered his system almost perfect. To make it utterly perfect he wrote into the Soviet Constitution that the vote of one presumably radical "proletarian" or factory worker shall equal the votes of five presumably reactionary Russian peasants, thus assuring the so-called "Dictatorship...
...watched with interest, for so sharp a drop in brightness is uncommon, and there were many who noted that twelve hours later it had grown brighter again. In the intervening week it has apparently been fluctuating violently but regularly in brightness, about once in three days. It is not unusual for a Nova to do this, although the change is not always so rapid...
...uncommon for the female rat to exhibit disapproval of a male rat introduced into her premises. Her attitude towards the male, at such times, is merely defensive?if he approaches her, she rises on her hind legs and utters cries of distress, repelling him with her forepaws...