Word: remnants
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From Miss Elizabeth Frances Sybil Stuart of Bath, England, direct descendant of William Penn, the last remnant of the Penn family's holdings in Pennsylvania was bought by Henry Steinman Snyder, onetime vice president of Bethlehem Steel Corp. In purchasing Green Pond, near Farmersville, Pa., Mr. Snyder discovered that 3.69-acres of the pond were still owned by the Penns, traced ownership to Miss Stuart, had a copy of the original deed sent...
...Liberal but one was defeated, Father David, Daughter Megan and Son Major Gwilym Lloyd George won their seats. With his party thus reduced to four M. P.'s, the former Prime Minister looked toward Labor. Friends declared it "inevitable" that he should join the Labor Party's remnant, providing much needed brains. Since Mount Snowdon overlooks his constituency the spunky Welshman cried: "On the heights of Snowdonia the Liberal flag still flies...
...Harvard there are certain traditions. There is Reinhardt, that last, and lingering remnant of the late nineties. The Vagabond loves Reinhardt as a brother. It is comfortable to hear Freshmen leaning out of their windows of a balmy evening shouting his name as though it were something altogether new and entertaining. There is also indifference. There is the Yale tradition. And there is the Radcliffe girl...
Liquidated the last remnant of the Vatican v. Fascism quarrel of last June by ruling that members of the Fascist Party may again belong to the Catholic clubs Azione Cattolica and vice versa. Spurred Italy's rapidly expanding mer chant marine by inducing all the larger Italian lines to merge last week into a new operating trust, the Lloyd Orientale. The mammoth merged fleet includes Vulcania (Cosulich), the Conte Grande and Conte Biancamano (Lloyd Sabaudo). Rumor named Count Costanzo Ciano. Minister of Communications and father-in-law of Daughter Edda. as the destined board chairman of Lloyd Orientale, thus...
Infection is the essential cause of appendicitis. The appendix is a taggle to the intestines, on the right side of the abdomen. It doubtless is the remnant of some organ useful to a primitive creature from which man evolved. But what that use was, anatomists have never agreed. It has no known use to present man. and it is often a nuisance. Feces, seeds, fruit stones, other digestive debris may pack into the appendix, set up an inflammation. Or the inflammation may represent an infection which originated in some distant part of the body...