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...range, on which he collected much valuable data and many geological specimens of value. This expedition will have as its objective the ascent of Mt. Tsar, an unclimbed peak with an altitude between 11,000 and 12,000 feet, and the topographical and geological exploration of the Chaba and Whirlpool peaks which are in the same region. A general survey of as much of the entire district as is possible will also be made...
...goes on to state that the Harvard Athletic Association in the fall of 1925 established at the Locker Building on Soldiers Field, a well-equipped department of physiotherapy, with the necessary baking machines, deep therapy lamps, diathermy, and whirlpool baths, in addition to a complete X-ray and fleuroscopic equipment with the necessary dark room. During the football seasons, frequently as many as 150 to 200 men were seen in the doctor's room daily. Many of these required no further medical treatment than advice but any injury severe enough to keep an individual from taking part in practice...
Hand on the bird That pivots over a spinning jet of air. Treading his tiny whirlpool-let my word Soften the iron synod of despair...
...McGovern safely reached London after being missing for months at the headwaters of the Amazon. One of his comrades was drowned in a river whirlpool; he himself nigh died of a jungle rheum. Hostile tribes, insects, vampire bats and reptiles beset his wanderings but he survived with tales to tell of unsuspected gold, silver, coal and oil deposits; and of being initiated, at rites which no woman may attend, into a freemasonry of bronze-skinned jungle nomads. Dr. McGovern, who though still in his twenties has scoured the globe's face from London to holy Lasa, was in time...
...Catholic claim on two facts; its acceptance of the Creeds, and its Apostolic Succession. It would scarcely be reverent to pull down this structure by changing the Creeds, as the structure was founded by Christ. Neither would it be wise, for the Church would then fall into the seething whirlpool of two hundred and fifty-six protestant sects; which, as they become more modernistic, become more agnostic and farther from Christianity...