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During the last 50 years doctors have found it almost impossible to repair nerves which have been cut, especially when a section of nerve has been torn away. Chief difficulty has been to bind the severed nerve ends or grafts together: even the finest needles and threads (e.g., blood vessel sutures) lacerate the nerve bundles. Researchers at Oxford in 1940 discarded stitching and used a glue made of chick plasma to bind severed nerves together...
...night offices in the Abbey's austere white chapel. He assisted at Matins, Lauds, Prime Terce, High Mass, Nones, Vespers, Complin. Among white-habited monks he worked on the farm, helping to cut and shock corn. He watched the monks weave cloth, bake bread, bind manuscripts, work at sculpture and wood carving. He shared their single daily vegetarian meal...
...Wait. For more than two months General Sir Harold Alexander's British had crouched along the 35-mile front stretching from the Qattara Depression to the sea. Daily they had made sorties and feints, lashing at Rommel's advance posts, scuttling back to their own lines to bind their wounds and bat the flies. The flies were the worst. They swarmed over the unburied dead. They swarmed over the living, drove soldiers close to madness, until morale ran out and men prayed only for some kind of action. Now they...
...with an elaborate essay on its artistic import, plans to get himself a little studio, paint "if I can get a new idea." Meantime he is working on his "Monograph." It consists of a collection in cardboard boxes of reproductions of his works since 1910. Eventually he intends to bind the boxes in beautiful leather cases...
...Blondes for Defense," first shown last night at the Pi Eta Club for the benefit of graduate members, is a peppy and inspired musical comedy with a simple but lively plot, which finds its weakest moments in the speaking parts that bind together a number of outstanding songs. As in last year's Pi Eta show, John Bunker introduces one of the two feature tunes, in his excellently acted role of "Hepzibah" who sings "I've Been Around...