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...food than an ordinary person-which, in proportion to her size, was only about one-third as much as an average person eats. Obesity on the Pontico scale, says Willoughby, is no longer believed to be due directly to faulty glands, but rather to "those parts of the metabolic apparatus itself which have to do with the stimulation of appetite and the absorption of fat-forming food elements...
Supplied with complete fire-fighting equipment, the auxiliaries have the opportunity of working with some of the best apparatus in the state, that of the Cambridge Fire department. Carefully schooled in the strategy of attacking fires, they soon learn the meaning of speed and teamwork...
...fractured bone (see cut). For greater firmness the pins are driven in obliquely, as a carpenter drives a nail. Each set of pins is then locked into a pin-bar, and the two bars are bolted to a long extension rod, forming a sort of external auxiliary bone. The apparatus (weight: 2¼ Ib.) is made of a light aluminum alloy except for 1) the pins, which are stainless steel so that they will not corrode in contact with flesh and bone, 2) the pin-bars, which are plastic so they will not set up the tissue-irritating galvanic currents...
...industry. A fighting force of thirteen million men will absorb practically all men eligible for college training. Without students there can be no universities, but college facilities, like those of industry, can be converted for war. If the modern Army calls for men acquainted with machines and complex technical apparatus, the colleges must provide them. If modern war calls for men sufficiently versed in their history to know for what they fight, the colleges can supply them...
...drinking pump in front of Hollis and Stoughton was placed there at the time of the tercentenary, in 1936, on the site of a similar apparatus which used to supply water to the residents of those Halls before "modern" plumbing was installed there...