Word: apparatuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, measuring the heart rate during exercise is possible only be means of the complicated and expensive apparatus shown attached to Sid Robinson in the above picture, the cardiotachometer, which picks up through chest electrodes the electrical variations that accompany each heart beat. This technique couldn't be applied extensively for practical purposes, but fortunately, part of the test conclusions also showed that there are differences in the heart rate after exercise of a fit and unfit person. Drs. Robert E. Johnson, Robert Darling, and Brouha found that it was possible to get a satisfactory estimate of general fitness...
...Apparatus work may be introduced in conditioning classes after the Christmas holidays if the gymnastic leaders' course is successful in training a group of undergraduates to lead these exercises, Norman G. Fradd, conditioning program head, announced yesterday...
This training class is now meeting from 7:30 to 8:30 o'clock every night Monday through Friday on the first floor of the Indoor Athletic Building and will continue until the Christmas holidays. All who are interested in apparatus work are invited to attend, Fradd said. Students will received a major athletic credit for the class...
...four days in succession our hospital has been plunged in darkness and the cause of this is attributed to interference of monkeys with electric fuses. The seriousness of the situation will be appreciated when I tell you that not only is the operating theater in darkness, with the sterilizing apparatus out of use, but the labor ward is left without any light." Lucknow's Differin Hospital reported two nurses and one patient bitten by monkeys. A workman on the roof of a Lucknow locomotive workshop nearly fell off while wrestling with a monkey...
...ports, most of them hideously mutilated; came limping torpedoed and shelled ships with ghastly scars; came those with heavy-weather damage-for the winds and storms still do their work, too; came others for conversion from sleek passenger liners to troop carriers; hundreds were fitted with degaussing apparatus, armed with guns. Some repair jobs were on such a large scale that the ships were practically rebuilt, many were completely re-engined. In one month 783 ships were under repair in 40 yards...