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...rubbish heaps, lavatories. To establish a presumption of infanticide, it is necessary to show that the child was not born dead. The autopsy surgeon removes the lungs, places them in a basin of water. If the child lived even briefly after birth, his lungs will contain air and will float; if not, they will sink...
...doses of theelin, a sex hormone, and cured them in a few weeks. A few months later Dr. John Huberman of Newark, N. J. and Dr. Howard Harry Israeloff of nearby Irvington, collaborating, gave five children hypodermic injections of amniotin. an extract of the fluids in which unborn children float. They gave a sixth child amniotin by mouth. All six got rid of their gonorrhea in a few months...
...indoor tank was put into operation yesterday for the first time, and the float and most of the motor boats will be taken in tomorrow. As Yale and most of the other colleges will be ending their outdoor seasons this week, the crew men will not be at any disadvantage...
...realized that only a series of football miracles could save Harvard. In place of a miracle, a deluge of Biblical proportions arrived, crowning out all memories of last year's Army mud festival. A solid sheet of water covered the midfield area and rapidly gained sufficient depth to actually float the ball in places. Every play looked more like an outboard motor race than a football game, and when the backs were tackled they stirred up impressive "bow waves" as they skidded to a stop. And simultaneous with the appearance of white-caps on the jumping pits, the band struck...
Employer Max Fleischer whose Popeye does most of his heroic feats on spinach alone, hired other help, refused to accede to strikers' demands. All summer the strike dragged on, marked only by such minor incidents as an abortive attempt by picketers to float propaganda balloons up past the studio windows, by the arrest of a few female strikers on such charges as shin-kicking, biting a police sergeant in the arm. In metropolitan theatres loud-lunged claques greeted the appearance of Fleischer cartoons with resounding boos. Fortnight ago C.A.D.U. announced that 13 cinema theatre circuits, including more than...