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...meaning Compassionate and Fortunate), was the last great sitter on China's Dragon Throne. Born into a noble clan still well-known in Peiping, she was chosen for the household of a dissolute Emperor, wangled herself up from fourth to second rank and produced his only son, a feat in itself. A slim little woman with lively black eyes, an implacable fury when crossed, otherwise fond of argument, company and flowers, she effectively ruled China from 1861 when she was 27 until her death in 1908. a chagrined old crone of 74. She engineered three coups d'etat...
...quick, unconsciousness following in some twenty seconds. Intravenous injection permits the doctors and nurses to dispense with the masks required for the safe administration of ether. When the patient awakes, his condition is practically unchanged; the test case was able to eat a large meal after the trial, a feat impossible after anesthetization by ether...
...daredevil then wangled a flight in a National Guard plane. He jumped despite the profane imprecations of the pilot, dropped 1,000 ft. before pulling the ripcord, landed unhurt on the frozen Charles River, was arrested by police for leaving an airplane "for a feat of daring." First victim of the Massachusetts law which forbids any but emergency parachute jumps, he was given a three-month sentence which was later suspended...
...meat courses always afforded serious difficulties. By extreme perseverance, however, even they were finally mastered. And yesterday the acme of perfection was reached when one Leonard P. Eliel '36 from J entry succeeded in consuming his soup by means of a spoon braced between his two chop-sticks. This feat excited envy throughout the dining hall, and the demand for chop-sticks became acute. A committee approached Mrs. Smith, the headwaitress, and guaranteed to donate the necessary funds, if chopsticks might be supplied in place of silver for all who wished them. Mrs. Smith referred the committee to Housemaster Greenough...
...striking miners must be either a dreary factual study or hysterical propaganda. With no statistical tables. no sociological jargon, not even a photograph (except on the jacket), I Went to Pit College paints an authentic, unforgettable picture. To have taken a postgraduate course at "Pit College" is no mean feat in itself; on the strength of her masterly thesis Authoress Gilfillan has graduated magna cum laude. The mining town she picked, more or less at random, was a huddle of shacks she calls "Avelonia," about 35 miles from Pittsburgh. Under cover of darkness she arrived in a hired car, knocked...