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...lapped plates on the wing surface. A modern plane weighing 20,000 Ib. and having a wing area of 1,000 sq. ft. was found to require 182 less horsepower to reach 225 m.p.h. if its wings were smoothly polished than if it had normal overlapping plates and brazier rivets with a head-diameter of 3/12...
...gravid body was dried and bandaged, 4,600 years ago, her husband encased her in a tomb which was opened only last month. Ancient doctors used forceps (which killed the baby) and performed Caesarean sections (which killed the mother) in cases of difficult delivery. Hindus today often put a brazier of hot charcoal under the maternity bed to assist Nature. More primitive obstetricians help by jumping up & down on the pregnant woman's abdomen...
...Francisco, at the University of California, two huge frescoes were unveiled fortnight ago in the Medical Center's lecture room. By Muralist Bernard Zakheim, they showed the development of modern medicine, from the ancient purifying brazier to the xray. Not far away San Francisco's best known sculptor, Beniamino Bufano, was putting the finishing touches to a 14-ft. statue of Dr. Sun Yatsen, to be erected in Chinatown. Both statue and murals will be paid for with Federal funds...
...House of Detention Samuel Insull staged his last fight against deportation. He employed an English barrister, Alexander Mango, to appeal his case to the Court of Cassation (Turkish Supreme Court). When the Turkish attorney general visited him he got more comforts: an armchair, a stove instead of a brazier to warm his cell. Often he was depressed but seldom wept...
...hours, would sleep but three or four hours (when he was a child he reasoned that brief sleep was the essence of Napoleon's career). Nor did many know why the fingers of his left hand were stubby. When he was three, he rolled into a floor brazier of live coals. Before his mother could get to him his hand was a jelly. Later a country surgeon cleaned up the finger stumps, made the butts useful enough to hold test tubes and beer bottles...