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Eighteen months ago, after hundreds of drinks of the radium tonic, he began having pains in his jaw, severe headaches. Dr. Joseph Manning Steiner, Manhattan x-ray specialist who had seen several of the young women poisoned in U.S. Radium Corp.'s factory (TIME, June 4, 1928 et seq.'), recognized in Byers' condition symptoms of radium poisoning...
...Innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Pennsylvania 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-2 Harvard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 x...
...When newspaper stories were handwritten, "x" meant the end of a sentence, "xx" the end of a paragraph, "xxx" (Roman for "30") the end of the story...
...TRAGEDY or X-Barnaby Ross-Viking...
During its seven-year life the Viking Press has never published a detective story. This criminal negligence the editors are enabled to expiate by the discovery of an "almost perfect mystery." The Tragedy of X strikes a happy balance: not perfect enough to render its readers completely insomniac, it has points enough to make them lose at least a minimum desired amount of sleep...