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...whole, Churchill's cabinet looked pretty good to almost everybody. The Tailor & Cutter, London's august arbiter of men's fashions, captivated by the Churchill ministry's "recognition of the Edwardian look" and "its disciplined adoption of the formal white stiff collar and town-wear bowler hat," said that the new cabinet is "the best dressed we have had for a number of years...
...what happened then: Surgeon Price Thomas made a cut beginning about two inches left of the spine, baring the ribs, and an assistant surgeon held the wound open with retractors while the "sterile nurse" (socalled because she wears sterile gloves to handle sterile instruments) handed Price Thomas a cutter something like a pair of rose pruners. With these he snipped a rib. Then he worked around, cut the same rib near the breastbone and removed it, taking care to leave part of the rib sheath intact so that a new rib could grow in. (Adjacent ribs sometimes have...
When supermarkets blossomed in the early '30s, the Friedlands were among the first to realize that they would permanently change the food business. They rented an old garage in Harrisburg, launched "The Giant Quality Food Price Cutter, bringing many carloads of the finest foods at ridiculously low prices." Samples: eggs, 1? apiece; oranges, 7? a dozen. In the first week, the giant grossed $15,000, more than all their other Harrisburg stores combined...
Santayana's chief quarrel with modern societies and governments is that they lack his and Nature's opulent tolerance. They try to stamp out their subjects with the uniformity of a cookie-cutter, leveling "all civilizations to a single cheap and dreary pattern." They aspire to be "dominations" rather than "powers," and domination is power run riot like cancer cells ravaging the body...
...torch looked like an ordinary oxyacetylene cutter, but its bright white flame (burning powdered aluminum in oxygen) ate into a wall of concrete as though it were candle wax. A second torch, burning fluorine in hydrogen, spat a tiny blue flame that could melt the concrete even faster. Either one, explained scientists of Temple University's Research Institute last week, could knife through any substance known...