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...doctor did not, however, advise anyone to take up blood supplying as a life profession. "Donors must always be in perfect health, without the slightest trace of disease. We examine a specimen of the blood of everyone who wishes to give some for transfusions, and if it is not absolutely satisfactory we refuse to permit them to supply...
Harvard's Saphora Japonica was brought from Japan 45 years ago, and is said to be the largest and oldest specimen in the country...
...large hat such as Mexican "greasers" wear, such as cowboys wear in the cinema-in short, a sombrero, its rim a burning red, its crown a brilliant blue, was given into the hands of Mr. Coolidge. After a short moment of admiration for so engaging a specimen of the hatters craft, Mr. Coolidge stuck his head under the hat's ample canopy-and in no time became a member of the Smoki Tribesmen of Prescott, Ariz. With the President in the rear grounds of the White House were representatives of the Prescott Chamber of Commerce, who performed the initiative...
...early days of its history the society used to gather on the steps of University Hall and give the whole college "a specimen of handsome performance...
...other hand, Blease, unless awed to silence and helplessness by the traditions and dignity of the Senate, would be a continuing scream, a clown without cleverness, the most perfect specimen of the cheapest kind of cross-roads orator, such as we see in the comic strips, the Senate ever has known ?an endless delight to the humorous section of the press gallery. He would draw on the State abundantly the shame and ridicule it has earned justly...