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...that opened the Somme offensive, a ludicrous mishap when his plane got away and raced around a field until it crashed. At 19 he was exhausted, weakened with eyestrain, his nerves ajangle, motivated only by a fatalistic conviction that, he would get through. The only time Lewis felt any anger against an enemy air man was during a bombing of London, when he was on night patrol above the city and could see the bombs strike with out being able to locate the Gothas that were dropping them. That made him realize that future wars would mean air at tacks...
...remarks by reporters would enliven the sessions. Thus when one interpreter was discussing a paper in the symposium on "Factors Determining Human Behavior," one reporter compared a child's actions under certain circumstances to a cat who'd been fed a hot oyster at which he'd pawed in anger after the bivalve had burnt him. "Do you feed your cat hot oysters asked someone. "Why yes," answered the helpful one, "he wanted it so I gave it to him." "That's a question in factors determining human behavior right there," interjected a third, and the aside came...
Watching the Kingston parade, an American Legionary named Harry Whitney stiffened in patriotic anger when he beheld the announcement, "Peace, Father Divine Is God" stitched on a U. S. flag. He summoned police, who stopped the bearer, a white woman called Fair Angel, directed her to take the flag back to the boat. Later, on the premises of the "Promised Land" where Father Divine was watching a few of his followers swim in a pool whose outhouses were marked for SISTERS and BROTHERS, the police .asked for the flag, got only the little cultist's soft reply...
Normal blood pressure for a healthy individual is roughly his age plus 100. It continually varies-lower in sleep and menstruation, higher after meals, baths, in anger, in pregnancy. Prolonged high blood pressure of 180 to 200 or low pressure of 60 to 75 are positive signs of disease somewhere in the system. To most people their blood pressure figure, without explanation, has no more meaning than the count of the white cells in their blood stream, or the specific gravity of their urine. Nonetheless the numbers indicating specific gravity, blood count or blood pressure do fascinate many people...
...free treatment and maintenance in the tax-supported county hospitals which citizens set up in better times. During Depression many a citizen who could have paid a private doctor some sort of fee has lied, wheedled or grafted his way into a free county hospital, to the anguish and anger of private practitioners...