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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindbergh centrifuge the reservoir for blood is a conical chamber resembling an ocarina. Piercing the butt end and extending almost to the apex is a thin tube with an adjustable inlet. By means of the inlet arm the "ocarina" is fixed horizontally to a vertical reservoir of replacement fluid. As the machine rotates and produces a centrifugal force up to 650 times gravity, the corpuscles settle out of the blood. Replacement fluid flows into the "ocarina" chamber, dilutes the original fluid which flows off through a vent. In a first test of 15 minutes Col. Lindbergh demonstrated that only...
...sainted Aunt Harriet used to say. Such doings! The old town abandoned itself last night to the spirit of revelry and the Vagabond from the shelter of the Subway Pagoda watched the swirling crowds in their mad career after excitement. Life, he mused, as a Freshman draped a fraternal arm about his shoulders, is a strange thing. Dexterously the Vagabond transferred the affections of the nebulous romantic to a nearby column and went on thinking about life...
Eben MacBurney Byers, 51, popular Pittsburgh sportsman and ironmaster, fell out of an upper berth five years ago returning from a Yale-Harvard football game. He hurt his arm. His Pittsburgh physiotherapist, Dr. Charles Clinton Moyar, prescribed a patented drink called ''Radithor." It was distilled water containing traces of radium and mesothorium (another radioactive substance). The dope eased the arm pain, braced Byers up. He enthusiastically recommended it to friends, sent them cases of it, even gave some to one of his horses. Last week Eben Byers died in Manhattan of radium poisoning. His close friend Mrs. Mary F. Hill...
...Tailteann Games, in Dublin, June 29 to July 15. Named for Queen Taile, the games were legendarily started by Lugh the Long Arm in 600 B. C., held regularly till the Norman era. They were revived in 1924, include arts, crafts, drama, music as well as track and field competitions...
...indeed. Three days later eleven of them set upon Burnis Frederick and a companion. Was Burnis Frederick a milk sop? Bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-bang! went his revolver. Down went three of the avengers of Mary Butterfield: Jerry Cebe, captain-elect of the wrestling team, hit in the arm and leg; Bus Love with a wound in his leg; Frank Luckey with a bullet in his abdomen. Law Student Frederick was carried off, beaten badly, thrown from an automobile near the college hospital where he later admitted the kidnapping and shooting. Freed under bond, he pleaded self-defense. Said...