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Against gunpowder, what chance has the poor pard, the feeble tiger, the defenseless lion? Lords once of the jungle, they are driven ever back into their forests, away from the soft fat flesh of the deer. But go where they will, gunpowder follows relentlessly until, at last, cornered, they turn, crouch, roar terribly, and leap-into bullets of death-dealing steel. Is this justice, is this sportmanship...
...rare disease in which the bones of adults become so soft that multiple fractures occur. ** Now Northwestern University Medical School...
...contribution to theology made in a recent book* of his, in which Agent Barton genuflects before a Saviour who was, in his opinion, the Founder of Modern Business. Agent Barton has small regard for the painters who have shown Christ as "a frail man, undermuscled, with a soft face-a woman's face, covered by a beard -and a benign but baffled look. ..." It was no such individual who whipped into efficiency "a haphazard collection of fishermen and small-town businessmen and one tax collector. . . . " 'Walk !' Do you suppose for one minute that a weakling, uttering that...
...Gardner* in 1912.† He asked to have the bar put at 13-2, measured his takeoff, dashed down the runway, shot high in air, fell over into the pit. Ted Meredith stood up shouting. A record had fallen. But, as the crowd roared-as Sherrill, resting in the soft turf, looked up at the space over which he had leaped, the bar toppled, fell over...
...fetus, he develops a cartilaginous spine, then a segmented back bone, an elongated body, a well-developed tail, five gill slits (two of which later become the Eustachian tubes) ; he resembles in turn a fish, an amphibian, a primitive reptile, a primitive mammal, an ape; he has dark soft hair covering the entire body except the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet until three weeks before birth. Occasionally, a child is born with the primitive tail still external (it not having atrophied and become internal as is usual). In such cases, when the child is glad...