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...Important medical detective work is the study of clothing and bits of matter that cling to hot bullets. A shot in the liver, for example, goes through coat, vest, trousers, shirt, underclothes and skin ("which is nothing but rawhide"), forming a cone of matter with the bullet at the apex. "The direction, penetration and size of the cone are important in determining the distance and direction of the shot...
This week, in the case of Apex Hosiery Co. v. a branch of the C. I. O. hosiery workers' union in Philadelphia, the U. S. Supreme Court decided the status of unions under the Sherman Act. Essence of the decision: strikes (including sitdowns), organizational drives, other normal union activities are not within the act's purview. But unions "are to some extent and in some circumstances subject to the act" (i.e., when price control, other trade restraints are primary purposes rather than incidental effects...
...fewer (the cross section of the pyramid diminishes). Such progress was made, for example, when heat was found to be energy of molecular motion; and when light, X-rays, gamma rays, wireless waves, ultraviolet and infrared radiation were all disclosed as electromagnetic vibrations. At the pyramid's apex there should be a master synthesis embracing all physical phenomena...
...common medical opinion, said Dr. Boas, aging does not inevitably bring heart disease and arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). There is a great difference, he continued, between natural withering and the "external insults" of disease. With age the human heart grows broader at the base, more pointed at the apex. Heart muscle fibres turn dark brown, heart valves stretch like old rubber tubes, lose their youthful elasticity. But all of these changes are normal, none spells doom. In healthy persons "the cardiac pump itself usually functions without faltering into advanced...
There are very few composers, if any, who can stand beside Handel in choral writing. After centuries of evolution, music for voices as a definite expressive element reached the apex of development in his works, a peak that never again has been reached. Later masters, such as Mozart and Beethoven, studied his writings sedulously in an effort to compose as tellingly for voices as he did; yet, in net effect, his works stand unrivalled...