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...such figures as William Morris and Robert Browning in the offing. When Kipling's family discovered what kind of treatment he had been getting at Portsmouth (his mother visited him, went up to his room to say goodnight, and "I flung up an arm to guard off the cuff I had been trained to expect"), they immediately rescued him, took him off to a country cottage. There he met his cousin, one Stanley Baldwin. At 11 Rudyard was sent to boarding school, at Westward Ho!, a new school mainly for boys from Army families, memorialized in Stalky & Co. After...
...scuttle, as one does when familiarizing oneself with the instrument layout and control locations of a new model. . . . I saw the red telltale bulb glow on the ignition switchboard. . . . The big engine had hesitated- 'hunted' we call it-for a second or two, whether because my cuff had caught the throttle lever and sharply shut it or whether, as Colonel Harker afterwards said, because of a fleeting, almost intangible carburation mood ... I do not know. At any rate there was no tremor, no noise; nothing but the sudden sight of the red bulb, a mute witness...
Having survived the Earl of Cottenham's cuff, the Phantom III carried him "stealing quietly uphill. . . . I found myself incoherently delighted like a child. . . . Attempting to avoid nothing, in fact, choosing if anything, the worst pieces of surface, I sailed down the middle of Bishop's Avenue hating the whole performance like poison, for I loathe so to treat a car . . . potholes a foot deep are everywhere. . . . Cars with orthodox springing, even of the best kind, shake the teeth in one's head as they pass over Bishop's Avenue. . . . Ghastly thuds sounded beneath...
...physician a person's blood pressure is only one of several physiological facts needed for making an intelligent diagnosis. The physician measures the blood pressure by wrapping around the patient's upper arm a hollow rubber cuff to which is connected a graduated column of mercury. Applying a stethoscope over an artery in the forearm, the doctor pumps air into the hollow cuff until it stops circulation. At this instant the air pressure in the cuff equals the maximum (systolic) blood pressure in the arteries of the arm, and the doctor hears a sharp blowing sound...
Last week at Coney Island Barnet Males was in trouble with the law for pandering to the common interest in blood pressure. On the Boardwalk he set up a sphygmomanometer including a regular cuff and bulb. An overlarge dial was blatantly labeled "Blood Pressure Indicator for SYSTOLIC PRESSURE." For 10? passers-by were invited to "READ YOUR OWN BLOOD PRESSURE."* To protect himself from the serious charge of practicing medicine without a license, Concessionaire Males set up big signs reading: "Attendant is forbidden to diagnose, prescribe or treat under any circumstances. The only purpose of this (non-stethoscope) machine...