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...Russian aid. Up to now Maxim Litvinoff has for many years made all important declarations of Soviet foreign policy, but as he lingered in Geneva last week Dictator Joseph Stalin jumped into the game. Abruptly, Moscow flashed a warning to Warsaw, lest the Poles dare to take a bite out of Czechoslovakia...
...cartilage, which he had cut from the ribs, in front of the ear. The block served as an extension of the jaw bone, soon grew firm and strong, advanced the lower jaw four-fifths of an inch (see cut). The new position of the jaw naturally changed the bite of the patient, but it did not take him long to get used to it. "There was very little post-operative reaction or discomfort," said the Survey. "The patient masticated food at the end of the fourth day and was discharged six days later...
...Paris, Georges Meunier saw a dog coming towards him. whose looks he did not like at all. Fearing that the dog was about to bite him, Georges Meunier bit the dog first. Police arrested him. Said Georges Meunier: "I decided to get him before he got me. Anyhow, I never knew it was an offense to bite...
Cause of plague is an oval-shaped germ called Pasturella pestis. Two main types of the disease are recognized: bubonic plague, transmitted by fleas, which causes inflammation of the lymph glands; and the deadly pneumonic plague, which may be transmitted by bites from infected animals, or the breath of infected humans. Pneumonic plague usually enters through a bite in the arm, travels rapidly to the lungs and spleen. The patient has a high fever, coughs constantly, cannot get his breath. Usually in three or four days he is dead. There is no specific treatment for plague patients. Antiplague serum, made...
...robs their irresponsibility of comic impact and turns what might have been high-tension comedy into mildly funny farce. Best shot: Errol Flynn, having hurriedly put an iron gate between himself and the great Danes, pausing to pull one of their tails between the bars, give it an emphatic bite...