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...that sly Artist Robinson had slipped into his design for capitalist Rockefeller Center a vague Communist import. His mural in blue, buffs and warm greys will show from left to right "a man, woman and child; a dog, cow and vegetation, with books and instruments at their feet; a triangular group of skyscrapers, rising above churches, temples, etc. of a former time; a huge gun flanked by two masks and backed by a ruined arch." Boardman Robinson, mild radical, one-time cartoonist for the radical New Masses, might have explained this excitingly. His soothing explanation was that he wanted...
...leech is a form of worm which lives on blood, can absorb as much as three or four times its body weight. Around its mouth is a sucker surrounded by a network of strong muscles. It makes a triangular incision in its victim, clamps on the sucker, pumps out the blood the while secreting a ferment which prevents the blood from coagulating. In tropical countries leeches attack men and beasts; in Western Asia, Southern Europe, North Africa they are imbibed in drinking water, cause hemorrhages, nosebleed, headache, asphyxia. They are hermaphrodites. In the U. S. they are retailed in some...
...head back, his chin up, to ease the pain in his neck. Now he could not move his head forward. He suffered terrible pains. The muscles of his neck were, say Drs. Ellis Fischel & Louis H. Jorstad who made the report, "woody-hard in consistency. . . . Under local anesthesia a triangular piece of tissue, a quarter of an inch thick and measuring an inch on each side, was removed (from the back) for biopsy. . . . The removal of this tissue was comparable to the removal of a section from a block of wood. . . . Indeed, the removed triangle of tissue could be fitted...
...Harvard, Yale, and Princeton Clubs of Southern California have combined for a triangular meeting at the Uplifters Club, Santa Monlea, on the afternoon of August 13, during the Olympiad this summer; members of the Olympic and football teams coming from the three above named universities will be guests...
Eliot golfers yesterday took the house championship title by easily defeating their Winthrop and Adams opponents in a triangular playoff. Each man played individual matches with his two antagonists...