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...current as minute as that generated by the heart. He accomplished this by the discovery of the wire galvanometer. This consists of a thin wire, stretched in a magnetic field. By virtue of its ability to measure these feeble electric currents of the heart it has proved a tremendous boon to the study of heart disease. So important is it for this purpose that almost every hospital in the country which takes heart patients is equipped to make electrocardiographs, as the pictures of the heart's action are called...
...peculiarly fits Mr. Gilbert for the important and responsible work which lies ahead of him, I feel that the Reparations Commission and the Governments are to be congratulated upon having secured for the post a man whose known breadth of vision, ability and wide experience will prove an invaluable boon to the great work which means so much to the world...
...forget that Fascism fought in 1919, 1920 and 1921, leaving some thousands of glorious dead, some ot them hardly more than boys, on its way and dared to carry out the Revolution in 1922 without first asking anyone's leave. My dear pedagogues, please confer the inestimable boon on us of reserving at least part of your sermons for those gentlemen who militate in the Opposition camp because the pacification which we sincerely want cannot be obtained by exercise of one-sided and therefore useless patience on our part...
...first time in complete visual form, from beginning to end. William Meyerowitz, famed American painter-etcher, in a narrative setting, goes through the process of etching, from posing the model, a ballet dancer, to drawing off the first proof from the press. The Magic Needle may prove a boon to those persons who frequent print rooms and constantly become involved in violent altercation trying to distinguish between engraving, etching and dry point...
...young men that he influences--and by whom he is equally influenced. And is it wholly amiss to mention his long vacations? If he is any good he uses them partly for work, to be sure, but he can work or loaf where and when he pleases and--a boon often denied the business man in summer--he can be with his family and actually get well acquainted with his wife and children...