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...beginning to extend an insidious domination over the hospital, and second, that as its first operator Harvard has chosen a German refugee, from the medical school. It is plain that Harvard wishes to appoint these technicians itself in order to insure expert handling of the delicate and costly apparatus, and also to give its young roentgenologists practical experience before placing them permanently...
Ninety years later a military engineer in a primitive diving apparatus descended to the lake floor, described what he had seen in glowing terms: "There were pegs veined so darkly they seemed of ebony ... a pavement of bricks three palms each way, red as carmine, and also enameling. . . ." Still other grapplings yielded slabs of terra cotta, mosaics and porphyry, but the vessels themselves remained stuck in the ooze. In 1928 Mussolini, interested as always in reviving the spirit of the ancient Roman conquerors, brushed aside all the piecemeal methods of salvaging theretofore used and imperiously ordered the lake drained...
...syphilis. From the bottom of the jar, a yellowish fluid trickled through a flexible glass tube into a needle inserted in the vein between his elbow and wrist. Proudly the patient grinned at his distinguished guests, flexed his arm. Snapped his nurse: "Don't show off." The apparatus was an ordinary "Murphy drip," long used for glucose feedings...
...Costly Apparatus...
...party is preparing over $4,000 worth of equipment which will measure the ionosphere continuously from September 1, a month before the eclipse, to October 30, a month after it. Special apparatus will be used during the actual moments of the eclipse for recording the ionospheric changes...