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...Health, and the Rockefeller Foundation are working on the disease, no one yet knows what it is. It has been seen in Austria, India, Britain, Germany, Australia, Malaya, is probably carried by a virus. It usually infects only one eye, which becomes bloodshot, swollen, drips tears like a leaking faucet. At first the inner eyelid is speckled red, like trout, later looks like crimson velvet. During the second week there is occasional stabbing pain in the eyeball; after that there is little discomfort except the continual dripping...
...After initial chlorine treatment has killed organic matter in the water, a sensitive cell measures the residual chlorine by the amount of electric current which will pass through the water. Further chlorine is then automatically added only as needed to protect the water on its way to the ultimate faucet, instead of according to the volume of water, as at present. Now used at New Haven, Conn., the new chlorinators will soon be installed in New York and other U.S. cities...
...life was made up of loving and making money, but it was a good deal more than that. Life was made up of letting the dog out, of hitting your thumb with the hammer when you were driving nails, of getting someone to fix the washer in the laundry faucet, of Christmas and friends to dinner. . . . It always seemed that, when I finished with one particular problem, there would be time to read or time to think-but there was always something else. . . . From the depths of memory a troubled tale emerges...
...characteristic of medieval art as piety and sound workmanship. All four merge in the series of aquamaniles which Dr. Swarzenski calls his zoo. Once used for ceremonial washing, these bronze ewers include centaurs, lions, horses, unicorns. One gryphon holds a small human figure in his mouth as faucet. Even George Apley would have collected them out of predilection rather than duty...
Though no stage character but Whiteside has ever made a wheelchair seem so much like a guillotine, Kaufman & Hart have filled their flabbergasted Ohio living-room with more than verbal slaughter, have turned it also into an immensely comic beer garden. While wisecracks pour out of one faucet, nonsense pours out of another. As a comedy of bad manners, The Man Who Came to Dinner turns crude now & then. But with Actor Woolley excellent in the fattest of parts, with most of the jokes buttered on both sides, and with everything from convicts to cockroaches to brighten up the cast...