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...oxygen breathed is decreased, the senses are dulled, so that bodily changes which would normally cause pain are not felt. Above altitudes of 12,000 feet, a man who does not take oxygen will become sleepy and depressed, or hilarious and pugnacious. At 25,000 feet, he may droop into a pleasant, possibly fatal coma. A pilot flying at 15,000 to 18,000 feet for four or five hours may feel well enough to ignore his cumbersome oxygen mask. But when he lands he may collapse with violent headache, dizziness, nausea, muscular weakness, mental confusion. Chronic altitude sickness...
Last year Manhattan critics noticed a slight droop in the annual sculpture show of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Last week the 1939 show opened, and by the time the critics had written their reviews, the droop became a full-fledged wither. No matter how faded, however, Whitney bouquets always have some spectacular posies...
Some U. S. symphony orchestras change conductors almost as rapidly as women change hat styles. Not so the 48-year-old Chicago Symphony. Its first conductor, the late Theodore Thomas, lasted 14 years. When he died in 1905, Chicagoans got a new one, a droop-mustached German named Frederick Stock. Him they have kept ever since...
...home which are very interesting and amusing. As she talks Vag looks at her closely. Can this be the little girl he used to go to Sunday School with? And blush with at dancing class? Surety this isn't the same little wretch whose--yes, whose bloomers used to droop so sadly years ago? But it is. She has certainly improved. Vag admits, so on the way out he buys her a huge chrysanthemum. Then, into the Charger--crank, crank. And off to Cambridge--clank, clank. Vag glows. Even the Charger seems less cantankerous...
...Dogs droop and often die of distemper, a virus disease which affects them very much as influenza affects human beings. For experimental purposes scientists infect monkeys with the virus of distemper, just as they infect them with the virus of infantile paralysis. Last year, at Valhalla, N. Y., Dr. Gilbert Julias Dalldorf and associates* tried to inoculate monkeys with strains of both diseases at the same time and found that monkeys will not catch infantile paralysis while suffering from distemper. Last fortnight the Rockefeller Institute's Journal of Experimental Medicine presented the details of the experiments, as well...