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Meteorological cataclysms were the terror of Blennerhassett's life. At the approach of thunderstorms, he bolted all the windows, buried himself in bed. Consequently, he built his island home of wood "to resist earthquakes." A noble edifice with two spacious wings, its lawns and gardens were as fine as any in England. Inside, "foreign frescoes colored the ceilings, the walls were hung with costly pictures, and the furniture, imported from Paris and London, was rich, costly and tasteful." The dining room sideboard offered a hospitality as fine as could be found in Virginia, for Blennerhassett Island, discovered by Surveyor...
Rhizotomy. High blood pressure may be due to hardened or tense arteries. Both resist the pulsations of blood, cause back pressure upon the heart. Hardened arteries are irreparable. Tense arteries are that way because sympathetic nerves constrict them. If those nerves are drugged the arteries will relax, the blood pressure will fall. To make such relaxation permanent, surgeons like Dr. Alfred Washington Adson of the Mayo Clinic cut the sympathetic nerves involved. The most effective operation. said Dr. Adson, is rhizotomy, or the snipping of the nerve roots as they come out of the spinal column. To accomplish this...
...faint nostalgia assails me as I read comments in Press anent Nashville's Tennessean (TIME, Oct. 21). . . . I, as a member of the original staff, am too weak to resist adding a few episodes...
...York Police made a fiery speech to his department on Wednesday. "We want to tar the collars and dirty up the fancy shirts of a few of these mugs who hang around the night spots," he explained. "I think a lot of them are going to resist arrest, and there'll be many a black eye in the morning...
...Dictator, given absolute control over Italy's exports & imports. Since then no Italian has been able to get foreign exchange with which to buy anything abroad without Guarneri's O. K. No other man alive knows so much about what Italy's real powers to resist economic sanctions may be, and the Professor is no cloistered scholar. Captured and clapped into a German prison camp during the Great War, he went home to run the Chamber of Commerce in Italy's great port of Genoa, was executive boss of the Dictatorship's control office...