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...methods used in finding out these facts vary with different people. The changes in the blood are studied under different activities and conditions, the oxygen consumed, the carbonic acid excreted, the changes in breathing, the amount and rate of blood circulating, the amount of blood put out by one beat of the heart, and other similar actions...
...party, the Wafd. She and servants played a fire hose on certain rioters. Others, unchecked, lost their heads so completely that they mistook for an Englishman and attacked the Principal of the American College outside of Cairo, Dr. Charles P. Russel of Hastings, Neb. At him was thrown acid which burned him, though not dangerously...
...Tall call boys on platforms, before stock price recording boards in brokerage offices abbreviate in order to keep up with racing tickers. Allied Chemical and Dye is cried: "Acid," Texas Gulf Sulphur "Tiger Lily," Bethlehem Steel "Betsy Steel," Southern Pacific "Soup," Standard Oil of New Jersey "John...
...Murphy bed clasps catch on blankets. John becomes twice a father and gets an eight dollar raise. John and Mary worry and work; then in a mobbed street a truck crushes the baby, and John, frenzied, tries to stop the city because his child is sick. The acid of the tragedy bites his brain. He loses his job, his work fibre loosens, he is out of step with the crowd. When Mary threatens to leave him, he gets a sandwichman job; the work fibre tightens, and John Sims. Everyman, is once more running with the pack, happy...
...bars, the bankers to sell the bars to the Sub-Treasury for a check in dollar denominations, the Mint to coin the bars into quarter-eagles, half-eagles, eagles, double-eagles. Assay office chemists in the annex to the Sub-Treasury building in Wall Street lit furnaces, uncorked acid bottles, adjusted exquisite balances, burned, corroded, measured, weighed bars of gold. It was standard gold. It was, in fact, new gold-from Siberian mines, which now produce $25,000,000 worth a year. U. S. trade with Russia is now larger than before the war, about $100,000,000 a year...