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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bobby's Brain Box...
...University, was using human subjects in his respiration calorimeter, in the basement of Judd Hall, several years before 1911. I know, because I was one of them. At midyear examination time of my junior year (i.e., February 1905), a number of us took our examinations in Bobby's box, with the idea of finding out whether brain work consumed any physical energy. As I recall it, they never proved that it did, or at best reached a Scotch verdict. But it was a man-sized calorimeter with all the fixings, and subjects would sometimes stay...
...Peru) and the father of a young son named Jonathan, Leonard is the owner of a growing stack of trophies. His prize, a packet of lead-wrapped fragments of fused soil from the crater of the first atomic bomb explosion in New Mexico, reposes in a Manhattan safe deposit box together with some government bonds. Planning to visit the vault some day with a Geiger counter to see whether the fragments are still radioactive, Leonard is prepared for anything - even the possibility of seeing remnants of his bonds fly out of the box like a swarm of moths...
...took conferees only 90 minutes to agree on making the tax cut effective July 1 (instead of retroactive to Jan. 1 as approved by the House), and to iron out minor details in the tax-reduction brackets (see box...
...every American boy within earshot of a radio knows, Cowboy Tom Mix's* wondrous compass-magnifying glass may be obtained for only 15? and one Shredded Ralston box top. The same price plus one box top of General Mills' Kix will bring the "awe-inspiring" atomic-bomb ring with its "concealed observation lens...