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With a rat on each treadmill, the apparatus was set running 20 hours a day. The pace soon began to tell. The wakeful, wretched rats grew scrawny and stopped growing. After 30 sleepless days, their dispositions showed it. They snapped and bit out in all directions. Given an opportunity, they attacked and killed one another...
...equipment is coming in bit by bit," Dwyer relates, "and we are giving service as it is available." While predicting another batch of satisfied applicants around March 1, Dwyer makes no promises for any service before April, when he expects to have received the required apparatus...
...heels of such longtime export leaders as wheat, flour and newsprint, were some healthy newcomers. Locomotives, cars and parts exported totaled $53.3 million v. $358,000 in 1939; synthetic rubber, $7.9 million v. $200,000 in 1939; electrical apparatus (including radios), $20.9 million v. $3.2 million; ships, $18.8 million...
...students who understand it) the gravitational field which extends throughout space. But it did not explain the electromagnetic field, which is quite as big a subject. Physicists have plotted some minor electromagnetic laws. Engineers know some rules of thumb: they deal with electromagnetics in nearly every piece of electrical apparatus they touch. But no one has come forward with one acceptable theory to explain both the gravitational and the electromagnetic fields...
...Jennie Tourel is the daughter of a traveling Russian businessman and "was born in Montreal by accident." She lived most of her life in Paris. At first, studying singing, she couldn't agree with a voice teacher who "put me in the mouth some kind of apparatus to teach me voice production." Then she found a coach who told her to sing as if she were reciting a poem, and that solved phrasing...