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...tumor was of the benign type, four inches long by two inches wide and three quarters of an inch thick. This is believed to have been the first operation for brain tumor under, a local anaesthetic...
...thoughts, eat the same food, do the same things and do them always in groups. A Crumb, finding himself alone in anything would very possibly go mad. They are gross, suffocating vulgarians. Among them are Orrin, the Gideonite salesman, bristling with esprit de corps; Tweet, his wife, "a fair thick being"; Mama Crumb, passive housewife ; Pearl, "a lovely, listless sister, a too mellow fruit"; Richmiel, sleek and perfumed, "whose body had seemed nine-tenths of her being" Grandfather Crumb, old, defeated, hopeless, ignored by the other Crumbs, but rising above them. Leda's defenses were being beaten down...
...series of futile efforts to organize the steel industry with abolition of the twelve-hour shift as their chief talking point. The next important protest was made in the Interchurch World Movement's report on the Steel Strike. Now the Federated Engineering Societies of America has published a thick volume called " The Twelve-Hour Shift in Industry," in which the authors endeavor to substantiate, amplify, and enhance by scientific authority all the arguments of previous investigators...
...Copley is the "first performance in this country". It is difficult to convince an American audience of the reality of a problem in which deep-rooted and time-rotted caste distinctions loom to such large proportions. This consideration weakens materially whatever of the dramatic is left in Bill's thick voiced, "Good God!", as well as lessening the effect of Lady Cheshire's pronouncement that having different manners is worse than having different souls. Even Studdenham's five and twenty years in the service of the Cheshires has a hollow sound...
This British boy, scarce 20, had been in the thick of the fight, twice wounded, since 1914. Now, late in 1919, he was helping to guard helpless women and children from massacre in Asia Minor...