Word: heart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bucharest the news from Athens warmed the cockles of many a Rumanian heart. One of the sons-in-law of dynamic Dowager Queen Marie is insipid Georgios II, deposed King of the Hellenes. Doubtless he would resume his rule if by any remote chance Greece should go Royalist...
Machines invented to record every change in the heart rate over long periods...
Radioactive elements in blood studied as the initiating source of the heart beats...
...most U. S. colleges there exist two kinds of faculty members: the teaching professors and the research professors. Dear to the heart of the undergraduate is many a teaching professor. Him they afterward remember for what little light and learning they possess, and also for his eccentricities, for good fellowship. When they grow old they swap anecdotes about him; if they become Trustees they like to see him prosper in his fashion. But the research professors, who sometimes regard the civilizing of students as a vague, even faintly vulgar waste of time, are the darlings of their erudite colleagues...
...them, the two are married, thus laying themselves open to prosecution for bigamy. Of course the wayward husband eventually returns. In an attempt to blackmail Michael, who is by this time a prosperous novelist, the scoundrel's insolence leads to a scuffle and he falls dead of a heart attack. Still seeking the highest moral good, Michael and Mary decide to conceal the truth of the incident from the courts for their son's sake. A decade later, when Michael explains the whole history to the boy and informs him that he is a bastard, the boy offers...