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...show 'cm," he vowed. And he did. He swallowed five baby white mice a la mode--with lettuce and mayonnaise...
...virus was applied to the leaf it promptly acquired the ability to reproduce itself-a characteristic of life. The virus is a giant molecule weighing 17,000,000 times as much as a hydrogen atom. Dr. Stanley found the molecule to be spherical, with a diameter of .0000002 cm. When Dr. Langmuir made a monofilm of the virus and then transferred the film to a glass plate where its thickness could be measured, he found that the molecule had flattened out like a pancake and that the film was 15 times thinner than the spherical diameter of one molecule. "This...
...beyond the Milky Way. When the recorders were tilted 30° westward from the vertical, the number of incoming rays was appreciably diminished. This indicated the presence of negative particles, slanted in the other direction by Earth's magnetic field. These bullets were so powerful that 16 cm. of lead slowed them hardly more than 4 cm. It followed, according to accepted theory, that they could not be electrons, for electrons would have been more than a thousand times more strongly absorbed by the greater thickness of lead. They must therefore be either negative protons or some wholly unsuspected...
...second core is cut at a depth of three centimetres and a third at two centimetres. The leucotome is then entirely removed from the brain and re-introduced in an anterolateral [front and side] direction into the same prefrontal lobe where cores are cut at a depth of 4.5 cm., 3.5 cm. and 2.5 cm. In like manner six spherical cuts or cores are made in the other frontal lobes...
...Murray's operation for embolus is to cut until he can handle the affected artery at the site of the plugging. Above and below the embolus he applies soft rubber-covered clamps to the artery. Over the embolus "a longitudinal incision, 0.5 to 1 cm. long, is made. The mass is expressed by the fingers without difficulty and the lower clamp is removed to allow return bleeding to flush the distal [away from the heart] segment and similarly the proximal [toward the heart] segment is flushed and the clamp reapplied. With fine oiled silk suture on arterial needles...