Word: barefootedness
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"Let your startled eye and dazed mind travel across blasted plains that frost the blood, stun the imagination; over mountain chains covered with age-old snows; across glacial rivers that race like maddened locomotives-barefooted, hungry-Proving That It Can Be Done No Matter What It Is."
*The Capuchin order of friars, famed for preaching and ministrations to the poor, sprang from the Franciscans. They became a separate order in about the year 1520 when Matteo di Bassi decided that the habit worn by the Franciscans was not the one that St. Francis had worn. He made...
Hookworm disease in China among silk workers and rice farmers comes from going barefooted under mulberry trees in the fields where the ground is infected. . When the coolies learn to wear shoes, it will be eliminated.-Dr. W. W. Cort, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene.
His machines. Abrams' main card is his method of "splanchno-diagnosis" (abdominal). It is applied to blood specimens, cultures of tissues from the body of a patient, or even to samples of his handwriting! The tests may be conducted in absentia with the patient 3,000 miles away. For best...
The most important object added last year is the reproduction in concrete of a sandstone slab, dating from about 1280 from the tomb of Ulrich, Baron of Regensburg. The slab, which is the gift of Dr. Angst of Zurich, was found when the old fortifications of Zurich were destroyed in...