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...Italian Ambassadors to Germany, their faces wreathed in smiles. They whispered into the ear of Herr Stresemann. Then they shook his hand and that of his colleague, Chancellor Luther, who was also going. As Herr Stresemann clambered into his compartment, yet another pair of lips spoke quick and soft in his ear. They belonged to Monsignor Pacelli, the Papal Nuncio, who had come to whisper the deep counsel of the Vicar of Christ...
...body are eliminated through the bile, which is stored in the gallbladder. They knew that iodin and bromin salts are opaque to the Roentgen ray. They secured a combination of these salts and obtained X-ray pictures of the abdomen in which the gallbladder, previously invisible because of soft tissue, appeared almost as clearly as did the bones themselves. Stones in the gallbladder were localized easily. At the meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society in Washington, D. C., $600 of the $1,000 Leonard Prize for accomplishment in the X-ray field was awarded to these investigators. The remainder...
...Which engine is superior in speed, in accuracy? A hypothetical question, surely; one that might be debated i Erewhon on Midsummer Day, with Walter Travis expatiating kindly to Amos Rusie, Izaak Walton put-tnig in a gnarled, shy word, and the laughter of Robin Hood foaming clear and soft like the ale in his cup. Or fancy Lou Gehrig, Yankee first baseman, Leo Diegel, Canadian open golf champion, Edwin F. Harkins, famed fisherman, and Er. Paul W. Crouse, champion U.S. bow and arrower, indulging in a contest over a set distance, the archer to hit a 12-inch target...
...shoes. He carried an ivory headed malacca cane. His shirt and collar were of a delicate shade of blue. His cravat was blazoned in red and green. He wore a dark blue suit and atop his head concealing the shining mass of his cranium sat a green felt hat, soft, pour le sport...
...Miss Hampton. For it was indeed true that he had been photographed aboard ship with Gilda Gray (Mrs. Gaillard T. Boag) but no camera had included in one glimpse him with Hope Hampton. As the ship proceeded up the harbor, the well-dressed gentleman was photographed alone, with his soft green felt hat on his head, and with the little green hat removed, and with Myron T. Herrick, and with Emile Daeschner, and with Under Secretary of the Treasury Winston...