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...gold nose clip and a strange gold effigy ornament complete the list of things lost. Asked about the latter article, a museum spokesman declared, "We think it was a frog, at least the catalogue says so, but we have forgotten about...
...Clara's distant cousin, John Melvin Bonner, 16, who volunteered, Dr. Moran made two parallel slices from the left armpit straight down the side to the left hip. This week Dr. Moran will separate the strip of skin between the incisions from the underlying flesh and clip the long edges together to make a tube attached at one end to the boy's armpit, the other to his hip. As the bared flesh heals, new blood vessels will form in the tube of flesh -blood vessels which will nourish it during the next and more difficult stage...
...speed, and, within limits, this does not seem to be bad. Police regulations to the contrary, the difference between fifty and sixty on the open road in daylight cannot be regarded as serious, and when students are picked up for clocking sixty under circumstances that clearly warrant a fast clip, it is only the respect for the law that suffers...
...Douglas DC-3), its length 58 ft. and its weight loaded around 15,000 Ibs. From each of the fighting snouts ahead of the engines bristle big 37 millimetre (about 1½ in.) guns (see cut) that throw 1 Ib. high explosive shells two miles. Cartridges come in clips of five, one in each clip painted with phosphorus to burn as a tracer. Beside them are two .30 calibre guns and on each side of the centre fuselage two .50 calibre (1½ in.) guns sweep the skies from the rear...
Thus relentlessly concluded last week was the fall clip of Texas mohair. Twice a year, in October and February, the 3,000,000 Texas goats which supply four-fifths of the nation's crop of mohair are rounded up to be clipped. Every year they grow some 12,500,000 Ib. of hair which sells for around 60? a Ib. to people who turn it into upholstery...