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...write a clear and handsome hand. Said the London Times: "The influence of the 16th Century Roman chancery style is predominant, and undoubtedly beneficial ; but the exhibits are commendably free from formalism, and it is clearly the intention of those in charge of this admirable experiment that the bone structure of Arrighi, Johnston and Fairbank* shall be well covered with idiosyncratic muscle and flesh, to produce a sound, natural cursive...
...desperate intensity and temper than the battle of the bus driver v. his passengers. To the riders, the driver is a chronically exasperated ogre who delights in abandoning them on rainy street corners, or, if he consents to take them aboard, greets them with insults and treats them to bone-crushing lurches. To the driver, the enemy is a hydra-headed beast: a door blocker, a purse fumbler, and willfully uninformed. Jockeying his big green and cream-colored juggernaut down congested Madison Avenue one day last week, Driver James Coyne gloomily considered such frustrations...
Victims of radiation sickness (e.g., after an atomic bombing) are likely to die of anemia because the blood-building properties of the bone marrow are damaged. In everyday medical practice, X-ray dosages have to be worked out with utmost care to keep the patient from falling prey to radiation sickness. Treatment of cancer is often hampered by this limitation...
Novelist Norris. a senior editor of Newsweek, has set out to write a satire of the times, and he has not quite achieved it; satire calls for a steady hand, a rapier that can reach bone. He does show that he can wield the needle of burlesque with some of the best in the business...
...third grade, he showed little interest in drawing flowers and houses. He preferred skeletons, with each bone carefully labeled, or diagrams of the human circulatory system. Two and a half years ago, Bobby took up chemistry. He set up a tiny laboratory in his parents' unused coalbin, plastered the walls with his own charts of the elements and their valences. His mother went to the Cleveland Heights Board of Education to get him a special tutor...