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...Junior" college course, which is a preliminary portion of the total four years work. Another comprehensive follows the "Senior" college course. Attendance and marks are disregarded. The courses are not designed for marks or for a minimum of knowledge to be crammed down the undergraduate throat, but as an aid to intellectual development...
While all this was going on, Prisoner Hauptmann managed to steal a pewter spoon from his food tray, flatten its bowl, grind it razor-sharp, make a hooked scalpel of its handle. His jailers thought the taciturn German had planned to cut his throat or wrists one night, bleed to death, close the case in his own fashion...
...prescribed territory, bearing with them a properly-signed pass. Strictly speaking, such an Agency would not enjoy a monopoly, but would be allowed solely the privilege of canvassing University property, thus permitting other concerns to collect and deliver at student request. At the same time, undesirable solicitors, cut-throat competition, and the nuisance would all be eliminated...
...September, the dread typhoon season. The late rice was in flower. The typhoon, striking at 60 m. p. h. and increasing to 120 m. p. h., headed straight into the dragon's throat where are the great tea plantations, the textile and munitions factories of Japan's second largest city, Osaka, the great port of Kobe, and ancient imperial Kyoto. These are three of Japan's five biggest cities...
Tonsillectomy used to be a "kitchen chair" operation. Now in the hands of a throat specialist it entails all the pomp and ceremony of a major operation. At the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital, Surgeon David H. Jones related, an interne makes a preoperative examination of the patient's skin, nose, throat, ears, heart, lungs and kidneys. Continued Dr. Jones, "All patients with any suspected involvement, including rise in temperature over 100.4° F., are held for final examination by the Tonsil Supervisor. No patients are operated upon following a recent illness and no female patient is operated upon...