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...process. A case may require a dozen operations before its discharge, for these things cannot be done in a single step. The anaesthesia and prevention of infection are of special importance. Much of the early War work was hampered by infection and lack of equipment. In plastic surgery flaps of skin and tissue are frequently moved from one part of the body to take the place of a defect in another. For instance, a strip of flesh will be dissected from the upper arm, leaving one end attached, and the free end grafted in place on the face, maintaining continuous...
...Miss Cornelia Hallowell as Aunt Jemimah gives an appreciative audience a good chance to laugh; the chance is not overlooked. The Gold Dust Twins, Miss Rosanna Fiske and Miss Dorothy Neyhart, and Miss Linda Wellington, as Cream of Wheat are the other black-faced comediennes. If they can all flap pan-cakes, wash dishes, and cook cereal as well as they act, the girls of this number deserve laurel wreaths. The Drill this year is as perfectly executed as it has ever been. The Fan costumes are most attractive...
Inspection is the next thing to heaven if cleanliness is next to Godliness. The glorified soldiers might be pardoned a desire to flap their sprouting wings and fly away, bright gun and all, in the extasy of their scrubbed perfection. But instead they must wait in agony at attention while one man after another is damned with faint praise, or blasted with none...
From the very beginning the aim of inventors has been to arise in a machine which is heavier than air. There were two kinds of these machines, one like a bird, with wings to flap, and the other like a kite. The former has turned out to be worthless, but the latter has been developed into the aeroplane. The first attempt to fly in one of these machines was made in 1894 with little success. Not until almost the beginning of this century when Langley, Chanute, and the Wright brothers turned their attention to this invention was anything like success...
Watching black-winged crows flap...