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From Vienna, where he had read of the Congressional appropriation financing U. S. Peace Commissioners for winding up the Spanish-American War, Mark Twain wisecracked in 1899: "At a public function in a European court all foreign representatives except ours wear clothes which in some way distinguish them. . . . But our representative appears in a plain black swallowtail. . . . It is found in all countries; it is as international as a nightshirt...
...pointed out that the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world; but, once every four years man closes his eyes, woman dons the pants, the hand seen rocking the cradle is a hairy, masculine one, and the female claw still clutches its cherished function of ruling the world. Reason, if we may be allowed a quotation, totters...
...bases for future innovations by members of the Student Council. New methods have been evolved for the nomination of candidates and a pernicious evil, the duplication of votes has been fore-stalled by the simple remedy of checking off each voter at the polls. Such clarification of an important function of the two classes deserves high praise. Better still it deserves the flattery of imitation...
...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...
When he gave the kidneys artificial fevers, they increased their absorption of oxygen until temperatures reached the equivalent of 107° in human beings. When a sick man's temperature reaches that height, his kidneys usually cease to function and he sinks into a coma. Autopsy usually discloses his kidneys damaged. That the damage begins with overexertion of mitochondria in the kidney cells seemed probable last week when Dr. Wilson reported that at the equivalent of 107° fever, rabbit kidney mitochondria suddenly shattered...