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...vigorous contractions every three hours or so. (Unless there was something inside, the stomach walls touched each other.) Between times, contractions were rare, slow and gentle. The stomach could be made to start work in the midst of a rest period by feeding it solids (e.g., a bouillon cube); it could be made to relax in the middle of work by feeding it liquids. > Tom's stomach secreted juice continuously, about 8 to 15 cc. an hour even while resting. (This contradicts a conclusion William Beaumont drew in 1833 from his famous experiments on Alexis St. Martin...
...Refrigerators will contain a violet-ray compartment for tenderizing meats and an ice-cube ejector worked by turning a crank...
...four and a half, he caught the grocer short-changing his mother. That amazed her so that she wrote a child psychologist for guidance. The advice was to leave the boy alone. His parents say they did. They do not explain how he found out how to solve cube roots. For every question Joel answers correctly on the program he gets a penny and a marble. He also gets another penny and a marble for good behavior. He saves his pennies to buy maple-nut, chocolate-covered ice cream sticks...
...wide trap of knee-deep sand, a maze, a ditch that must be jumped and another (hedge-bound) that cannot be jumped, a long wooden tube through which cadets must crawl, a towering pile of loose logs that shift underfoot, a timber "jungle trap" arranged in a 20-ft. cube. By the time a cadet is ready to graduate, he must be able to finish this course in four minutes flat. At North Carolina one fledgling has already done...
...lump of this material the size of a sugar cube weighed about half a billion tons...