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...passed out during relatively shallow dives (up to four atmospheres of pressure used to be considered safe). The British study, involving some 2,000 tests, proved that oxygen, forced into the tissues under pressure, somehow intoxicates the central nervous system and poisons the brain cortex. (Whales, biologists have observed, bypass the whole oxygen problem by collapsing their lungs during deep dives...
...Senate can still bypass the Committee's shortsighted action by voting funds sufficient to keep America's views on the air, if only for a few minutes a day. It would mean taking a stand that is unpopular yet necessary, lest the world read more than a casual symbolism into the fact that America's radio voice has had its throat...
...bypass this serious restriction to basketball audiences, a problem which at Yale this winter has limited students to witnessing three games only, and these not of their own choosing, the H.A.A. began to schedule home games in the Boston Garden...
...elementary psychology. Yet short of doing handstands on the platform, glowing in the dark, or making faces at the audience, little can ordinarily be done to lighten up the subject's long succession of polysyllabic terms. But the lectures which Professor Gordon Allport delivers in his pleasant, wry voice bypass the whole question by gearing theory in at every step with commonplace experience. "A theory lisn't a good theory if it doesn't work," he says, making it all sound not overly difficult...
...veteran or transfer student who would just as soon bypass the required Freshman English A course, an anticipatory examination is scheduled for tomorrow from 11 to 1 o'clock. Placement tests in German, Spanish, and Physics will occupy the rest of tomorrow afternoon...