Word: appendix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Recently we have received inquiries about breeding koalas in captivity, probably as a result of your article. It may interest your readers to know-though of course this is quite apart from interest in preservation of the species-that koalas are unique in having a vermiform appendix of six to eight feet in length...
...Antipholus of Ephesus in an amateur production of it once.) The Vagabond noses through half of the "Comedy" and compares it with the Elizabethan translation of Plautus's "Menochmi" (or "The Two Menechmuses' as some Elizabethans called it) which Shakespeare used in his play. The "Menochmi" is reprinted in Appendix B of the Arden edition. The Vagabond, if he had the money, would buy the Arden Shakespeare, every volume of it. If for no other reason that that the notes are page-by-page and not lumped all together in a formidable unwieldily mass...
...order to do so it has juggled its bookkeeping. One trick is to omit from the totals such items as pay ments to trust funds, certain District of Columbia expenditures, half the annual sinking fund payment for the Soldiers' Bonus. These items are furtively listed only in the appendix of the budget report. The apparent saving from this source has been $188,000,000 to $238,000,000 a year. "This," sarcastically declared the country's only living ex-President, "is one of the easiest methods of reducing Government expenses yet discovered...
Such worms may travel from the intestines to the stomach whence they may be vomited, to the nose, to the middle ear, to the larynx where they occasionally cause fatal suffocation, to the common bile duct where they may cause jaundice, to the pancreas, to the vermiform appendix. A child who suffers from digestive disturbances, capricious appetite, abdominal pains, gas, vomiting, restlessness and irritability, itchy nose, grinding of the teeth, foul breath, headache, dizziness, cough, convulsions, anemia, peakedness may be suffering from roundworms...
Died. S. (for Samuel) Parkes Cadman, 71, radiopreacher, pastor of Brooklyn's Central Congregational Church, onetime (1924-28) president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, onetime (1934-36) honorary Congregational moderator; of a ruptured appendix; in Plattsburg...