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...selecting a suitable site for the shindig. An announcement as to the location finally chosen should appear here next week. As an extra added attraction the Messrs. Cross and Brunner will present one of their inimitable stage shows at intermission. Because the Danec is still in a sub-fetal stage complete details will not be available until a later date. Until then, look around and try to find some girl who will go with...
...Rhymes with idle. Literally "hair-nest," so called because hairs grow inside the cyst. A pi lonidal cyst is supposed to result from imperfect fusion of the two halves of a body in fetal life...
...Children with infantile paralysis are usually fine and big, but not so fully developed as healthy ones. The broad, flat nose bridge, which the doctors noticed as indicating a disposition toward the disease, is a carry-over from fetal life-a mature nose has a high bridge. Another feature frequently found in paralysis cases: long eyelashes...
...condition is by no means rare: hundreds of cases have been reported in medical literature. Most famous case: Mary Tudor, Queen of England. In addition to a distended abdomen, a woman may present other signs of pregnancy such as amenorrhea (absence or suppression of menstruation), full breasts, fetal movements, etc. If a doctor is at all suspicious, a biological test, like the Aschheim-Zondek pregnancy test, will solve the problem. But a few doctors have been taken in by the symptoms...
...sextant, the use of Indian hammocks at sea, of pumps for bilge, copper sheathing against marine borers. He is fascinated -and so is the reader-by every detail of medieval navigation, by Columbus (half inspired zany, fur-collared "thespian"), by the cloudy jumble of zombie myth and fetal science which throng Columbus' mind...