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When a colonial ruler like General Nogues finds it necessary thus to explain to natives that his home Government is not split and his white brethren are really with him, significant fat is obviously on the fire. To see it sputter, Mrs. Anne O'Hare Mc-Cormick of the New York Times touched at Algiers last week, and upon her ever sympathetic shoulder French colonists who are bearing the white man's burden in North Africa in effect sobbed their fears...
Stung by his opponent's tactics, bald, amiable Mr. Cooke charged that Mayor Wilson and his allies had succeeded in ''muffling" a Grand Jury investigation of Philadelphia vice ordered by Socialite Judge Curtis Bok, who is also up for reelection. Ordered to explain to the Grand Jury what he meant by "muffling," Mr. Cooke last week took the witness stand, floundered: "Well, the word-muffled-as I understand it, is generally applied to drums. In other words, you have heard of a muffled drum The muffling . . . simply insulates the drum from the outside influences which in that...
...cells are vulnerable to alcohol, chloroform, uranium nitrate and other poisons. If the poisoning is slight, the destroyed cuboidal cells are promptly replaced. But if the poisoning is serious, peculiar flat cells repair the damage to liver and kidneys. Those flat cells withstand great amounts of intoxication, and possibly explain why mature men and women carry their liquor better than juveniles. "The mechanism which prevents poisons from injuring this type of cells is entirely unknown," said Dr. MacNider...
...have been a one sided score," he remarked when recalling the game, but we got hit harder in that game than, any other all season." He went on to explain that the Crimson eleven gained more yardage through the Dartmouth line than did any other team all season--and only 142 yards were accredited to Harlow's charges as opposed to 333 to the Indians...
...dance with the hostess then." Only he says it sort of ominous-like. So I ask one of these flunkeys with a white flower in his button-hole which is the hostess. And he points over to a girl that looks like she'd kept pretty well, and I explain I want the Old lady's daughter. Then it turns out this is the daughter. So then I know what Charley means, and I get careful. She has on one of those long pink dresses with icing and forgetmenots around the neck, and she's got a green orchid strapped...