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...calcium and phosphorous. The disease, which produces circus sideshows' "stone men," is usually not fatal to adults, sometimes causing only a local ossification. Some physicians think there is a long chance of saving Benjamin Hendrick, whose back, thighs and upper arms are already hard as rock, if his parathyroids can be stimulated to check the flow of calcium. But most of the doctors at his bedside believe the hardening will go on & on until it reaches some vital organ and stops it for good...
...American Banker discovered that instead of lending more freely in the best Jones manner, the Jones bank had substantially increased its cash and Government bond holdings until it was more than 80% liquid. Loans & discounts had actually decreased. The Jones bank was rock-sound but apparently it had found good borrowers as scarce as any non-Jones bank in the land...
...Public Health Service showed Philadelphia with 1,418 cases against 92 in the same week last year, Baltimore with 411 to 3, St. Louis with 468 to 17, Salt Lake City with 506 to 1. San Francisco with 105 to 4. Boston, Cincinnati, Omaha, Memphis, Atlanta, Little Rock also held many a pimply, feverish face. The schools of Waterville, N. Y. were closed because of measles. Dancer Agnes de Mille, Hollywood-bound from England to act in one of her Uncle Cecil's cinemas, arrived in Manhattan with a well-developed case...
...Queen, if there ever was such a person, knew how to handle her own affairs and Solomon's; she would have founded her city on a rock and not on a desert. If any one claims that the character of the land has changed since the tenth century, B.C., they are mistaken. There is very little precipitation in Arabia, and the only things which tend to change the topography are sand storms, but these are few in number. Relics found in deep gulleys, where water would have flowed if there was much rain, are perfectly preserved; some tomb stones...
...Jerphanion, the one attempting to recapture the purity of his love for Helene Sigeau, and the other just emerging from the crises of adolescence and still struggling in the tolls of youthful lust. Both of them are seeking, amid the disillusionment of the decade before the war, some rock on which to build their lives. There are countless other characters: a fake critic, a great poet, a great statesman, and the dog Macaire, an hour of whose life, set down in six pages, gives us as vivid a picture of the canine world as all of Virginia Wolf's "Flush...