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...such cells contain a small spherical body called a nucleus, surrounded by a soft, jelly-like material called cytoplasm. Dotting the cytoplasm are tiny granules called mitochondria, whose function in life has been a mystery to physiologists...
...understood that Hanfstaengl's letter is in reply to the form letter sent to all of the 67,000 Harvard alumni by President Conant. The later explained President Conant's proposed national scholarships and roving professorships and was erroneously assumed to contain a plea for money as well as for the general sympathy of the graduates toward the new proposals...
...racketeers. Best scene in the picture and most gruesome* in the month's crop of such exhibits shows the public prosecutor torturing the triggerman into a wholesale confession of his crimes by beating him, strapping him into a chair, leaving him alone with a sinister package supposed to contain a timebomb...
...article in TIME for Nov. 25, dealing with the impeachment of the Secretary of State of Colorado for irregularities in the collection of Colorado liquor stamp taxes unfortunately failed to contain a complete account of the events leading up to the impeachment proceedings and accordingly did not make clear the position of McKesson & Robbins...
Silicosis is due to inhalation of fine, sharp particles of sand, sandstone or quartz, all of which contain silica, by miners', sandblasters, quarrymen, tunnel borers. The silica particles erode the delicate lining of the lungs, make them vulnerable to the germs of pneumonia and tuberculosis. If those diseases do not kill, the silica victim usually wastes away to death because his clogged lungs transmit insufficient oxygen to his blood...