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...front cover & pictures, pp. 24 & 25) Backward, flat-faced Mongols were last week suddenly up in arms and out with up-to-date battle planes, spitting Death...
Perhaps Hanfy should not have been sent the letter, but it is silly to claim that he acted in good faith. He leaned so far backward in his answer to President Conant that he betrayed himself by his innocence. It was a choice between crucifying him on his own cross or biting on his line; and when Harvard wants to be a sucker, she can probably find a less obvious line to bite on. Arthur M. Rosenbloom...
...Isaac Magnin gave up carving at an early date, took a hand in the store's finances, but by the century's turn he had lost interest in the business. A linguist and amateur philosopher who quoted continually from Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward), he used to pedal his bicycle around & around Golden Gate Park, pockets crammed with Marxian tracts and pamphlets. Before he died in 1907 Mary...
...Baroness d'Erlanger." To her daughter's monstrous charges against her, Mrs. Maryon Andrews Bruguiere Denning Hewitt d'Erlanger McCarter replied with a blanket denial of everything except the fact of sterilization. She made affidavit that she had always lavished love and luxury on her backward daughter, that Ann's lack of education had been her own wilful fault. She had been dismissed from various schools "for various reasons," from one Philadelphia school "because of an incident too scandalous to mention." Always Mother Hewitt had striven to break "certain unfortunate little habits" in Ann. A statement...
...until they meet at a point midway between the molars. This cutting makes three gores in the roof of the mouth. With a blunt knife Dr. Vaughan separates the two rear gores from the palatine bone. This allows him to slide the soft palate, to which they are attached, backward to the rear wall of the throat. The loose flaps of membrane he then stitches to new positions on the palatine bone. By the time they grow onto the bone and new membrane grows over the bared portions of the bone, the soft palate has learned to prevent consonantal sounds...