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...short weeks of vacation have broken the thread of students habits--if one had them. Upon the golf links at Pinehurst, upon the sands at Miami, on the toboggan at Lake Placid, or in the quiet comfort of the family fireside, the Muses whispered in faint and unreal tones; Kant's "Critique" somehow seemed impertinent logic. But now the holidays are over. The dirty stop of Cambridge streets recalls a reality not to be doubted...
...prolonged operations. In Chicago, a certain dog, rendered unconcious daily for several years with ethylene, has yet shown no ill effects. An instrument was exhibited which has power to make visible the vital essence of man's life in the form of a thin flame shaking upon a thread. The electricity generated by the heart is carried to a silver quartz thread hanging in a magnetic field. As the heart strikes in and out, this faint fire shakes and shakes in the silver cord-patent to man, as it was of old to Atropos* Dr. Charles H. Mayo...
...Atropos was the Fate who cut the thread of life with her "abhorred shears...
...whose fervent patriotism is above question are rallying around the president of the National Security League, who has taken the leadership to expel Countess Catherine Karolyi of Hungary, one time associate of Bela Kun. None know so well as these arch-guardians of national safety by what a slim thread it hangs in these times of deceptive calm. One puff from an inflamed Bolshevik and the whole political and social structure will come tumbling about the ears of hapless multitudes in this peaceful and contented land. A stitch in time will save, not nine, but a hundred million souls from...
...stage. Much to the distress of his admirers, he has attempted to embody the rules and measure of his wisdom in the heart and beauty of a play. Mr. Young has built up the fabric of a well-made drama; he has strengthened it with a fancy thread of beauty; and he has wholly failed to fill it with the air of sound reality...