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Indeed indeed Can you see. The stars And regularly the precious treasure. What do we love without measure. We know...
James Ramsay MacDonald may not know his Byron but he knows his Bible. To this God-fearing Scot the present obstreperous Assyrian minority in the Kingdom of Irak are precious remnants of early Christian tribes. Hundreds of them were being butchered last week by the Irak soldiers and Kurdish mercenaries of lean, falcon-eyed King Feisal...
...mice, caring for them until they died of age or disease, and then cutting them open for microscopic study led Professor Slye to these conclusions. She started raising mice when she was a tiny child but her actual work began in 1908 when she was 29 and had six precious dollars to spend for six imported grey & white spotted Japanese mice. She intended to study their general genetic behavior. But when she crossed them with colored mice which she bought from the late Abby Lathrop, famed mouse fancier of Granby, Mass., and discovered cancer in a progeny. Professor Slye...
...Hopkins graduate, applied himself to finding out what there is in folk medicine which helps Chinese cure toothache, sinusitis and mouth sores with applications of dried toad venom and which made Shakespeare note: "Sweet are the uses of adversity, which like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head (As You Like It). From glands located behind the eyes of 7,500 U. S., German, Jamaican, Uruguayan, South African, Chinese and Japanese toads. Dr. Chen extracted potent drugs (adrenalin, cholesterol, ergosterol, and two digitalis-like substances) which modern scientific medicine considers indispensable. Apparently toads...
...hymn to St. John the Divine. Greeks and Episcopalians were photographed together as bushy-bearded Athenagoras. Archbishop of North & South America, presented the stone in a velvet-lined box on behalf of Chrysostomos, Archbishop of Athens, who wrote to his western brother saying: '"I consider this stone more precious than gold or silver...