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...beginning, Hollis was the meagre roof over the sombre heads of young men studying for the Puritan ministry. The gift of a prudent merchant to a struggling college, the bare wooden rooms and cell-like studies were the omnipresent manifestations of the privations of early faith...
...arms are short from shoulder to elbow, he is more than ordinarily susceptible to stomach ulcers. If he has kept a few baby teeth, he should watch his white blood-cell count. If a child has wide-set eyes, a low nose bridge, folds of skin obscuring the inner eye-corners and wide spaces between his front teeth, he should be especially careful about exposure to infantile paralysis...
...were also tried, also had to be called off. The priests held their own too well. Anti-religious museums, usually set up in former churches, were not much more successful. But the main campaign of the Godless was to educate an atheistic younger generation. With the slogans: "a Godless cell in every school" and "no religious schoolteachers," the Godless enrolled two million schoolchildren. But many more than two million did not join the Godless...
...mule and mule are fruitless (the genetic grounds: incompatibility of chromosomes). But as in the case of Farmer Vermaak's sport, a mule mare now & then carries her own dam's chromosomes-and once in some 200,000 encounters meets the stallion that has her (germ-cell) number...
...Cell Theory (that cells are the basic units of living matter) is commonly supposed to have been formulated first by the German Theodor Schwann in 1839. Actually it had been advanced nearly 200 years earlier, by British Botanist Robert Hooke, and many others preceded Schwann...