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...lying under the lower left ribs. It does not seem to have any particular secretion like other ductless glands, its value to the body is not well understood. In unborn children its chief duty seems to be to help make red blood cells. Destroying worn-out and useless blood cells seems to be its prime function after birth. It may be cut out with apparently only transient inconvenience to the person. When ruptured it must come out quickly...
Cannibals devour them; lions and tigers pounce upon them, claw and maul them to bits. They elbow their way through dense jungles, visiting and converting little pygmies and big black bucks. They fall ill of dread and curious diseases. From home they receive boxes of worn-out dresses, aprons, old hats, old pants for the natives. Chieftains salute them; witch-doctors harry them. Thus, traditionally, missionaries...
...should not begin behaving like gentlemen before we graduate. The popularity of squash, tennis and golf has become so great at Princeton that measures have been taken to keep down the number of people playing these games. Should we be criticized for not wishing black eyes, broken limbs and worn-out bodies for the glory of Old Nassau? . . . When you meet a Princeton man in years to come he will be wearing a Phi Beta Kappa key in preference to a var- sity...
Said Bishop William Fletcher McMurry of Missouri to the clergymen at the Louisville Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Columbia, Ky.: "Golf is for worn-out business men, not for Methodist preachers...
...cultivated; for example, books on the War are still pouring from the press, and, for another and more recent example, conditions in India make it necessary to buy more books on that troubled country. Also, as the Library grows older and more used, there are more and more worn-out and lost books to be replaced. The number of periodicals and other serials that must be taken is constantly growing, and eats up each year a very substantial part of the annual income,--estimated at nearly twenty-five per cent. A new periodical is like a new baby...