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...result of the disease), the doctors told the American Blood Irradiation Society in Atlantic City's Chalfonte-Haddon Hall. The process took only 15 to 25 minutes each time it was done. The doctors drew an amount of blood depending on the child's weight (1.5 cubic centimeters for each pound), added citrate to prevent clotting, fed it into a machine called a Knott Hemo-Irradiator that exposes the blood to ultraviolet light. Then the blood was returned to the child's arm through the same needle...
Down in the basement of Lyman Labs, Nobel Prizewinner Percy W. Bridgman is learning what happens to things when you squeeze them hard. With huge hydraulic presses, Bridgman has squeezed one cubic inch of matter with the pressure of 1000 trailer trucks...
...medical news indeed. It was reported last week that such good news is not an impossible hope. Dr. R. C. Arnold of the U.S. Public Health Services' Venereal Disease Control Research Laboratory announced that in 85 test cases, a single injection of 300,000 units (one cubic centimeter) of penicillin made syphilis noninfectious within 72 hours, and has kept it that way for most patients during the six to eight months the experiment has been running...
Although the chamber is 50 cubic feet in volume, the physicists have drained out so much air that the molecules left could easily be put on the head of a pin. Most of the instruments already register a pressure of absolute zero...
...cubic feet of water that make up the Indoor Athletic Pool, Hal Ulen's varsity swimmers are burning up more energy per unit time this week than enthusiasts in any other sport in the nation...