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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Purpose of medical art is didactic, to teach medical students about healthy and unhealthy human bodies and how to operate on them. Earliest known examples of medical art are Babylonian baked clay models of the liver. Earliest known medical painting represents the birth of one of Cleopatra's babies. In the Italian Renaissance painters belonged to the Guild of Physicians & Apothecaries, because they bought supplies from drugstores. Artists thus developed friends among doctors, and had opportunity to study anatomy. Leonardo da Vinci made more than 750 anatomical sketches, was the first to depict the true position of the fetus...
...fateful headline, our own pen trembles as it records the treason of Administration demagogues. One shudders to think what will come next from the New Dealers whose despotic path has led them to degrade the Father of His country. No palliative, not even the soothing words of a Clay, can smooth over such an affront to national patriotism. In no time at all the Mayflower Society, D.A.R., and W.C.T.U. will be at Mr. Farley's Democratic throat...
...Yardling committee in charge of the interdormitory sports has laid plans for future matches in tennis and softball. The group includes Charles H. Clark of Apley, curtis L. Clay of Wigglesworth, John M. Cregor of Stoughton, Langdon P. Marvin, Jr., of Holworthy, Homer D. Peabody, Jr. of Weld, and David D. Wells of Thayer...
...various other groups, but all attempts to exploit the crater's treasure have failed. Mr. Barringer first drilled in the centre, believing that because the crater was round the body must have fallen vertically. When he performed the highly ingenious experiment of firing bullets and shotgun charges into clay, however, he saw that a round crater was formed even when the projectiles entered at a considerable angle. Close study of the Meteor Crater strata made it seem that the meteorite had come in at a low angle, perhaps no more than 30°, from the northeast, and that...
Some of Margery's adherents forswore their allegiance after that, but others remained faithful. Psychologist Henry Clay McComas of Johns Hopkins University, whose hobby is exposing mediums, gathered two distinguished colleagues, a physicist and another psychologist, and journeyed to Boston to make a scientific report on a Margery seance. They were allowed to feel "ectoplasmic rods" supposedly sprouting from her thighs, but came to the conclusion afterwards that the rods were animal intestines stuffed with cotton and stiffened with wire...