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...Feel & Position. Nos. 10 and 11 are esoteric senses, little known but of great importance: vibratory and two-point discrimination sense. The vibratory sense is lodged in bone, which can feel the vibration of a tuning fork even when surrounding tissue cannot. Two-point discrimination (in itself a two-part sensory apparatus) can best be demonstrated with a schoolboy's compass whose steel and pencil points are an inch apart. Held against the back, this feels like a single object -the skin of the back has little two-point discrimination, and may need to have the compass spread three...
...tomorrow's old literary lions. With a fiery and mildly turbercular look in the eye, a copy of Keats beneath the arm, sandals on the feet, and a beard, one cannot be denied. The musical approach is more subtle. After five minutes in the interview, whip out a tuning fork, smile delightedly, whip out a pad, and compose like mad for a few minutes. Then resume former composure, quite calmly...
...House can't have the entry system, or fireplaces, or private baths. Without the insurance of period design, it may be like a horse-hair sofa today, an object of horror thirty years hence. And it may have the acoustical virtues of a giant tuning fork like that Great Mistake, Harkness Commons. But for all that, we're glad its on the way. Lebensraum...
...Towne Research Center at Valley Forge, had been testing new devices for large and heavy hydraulic valves used in Yale fork lift trucks, when he worked on and developed the tiny new silicone plastic valve in a stainless steel body on an entirely new medical principle to control the fluid from the head into the bloodstream. Holter now has been provided by Yale & Towne with precision tools in his home workshop in which to devote his full time to producing many more of the lifesaving brain valves...
...novel of fathers and sons," The Sacrifice takes its theme from the Bible, the talk of its old people from the folklore of Sholom Aleichem and the chat ter of its young from the Bronx locutions of Arthur Kober. Abraham is a patriarch in the classic mold-huge, fork-bearded, devout. When two of his sons are mur dered in a pogrom, he flees from the Ukraine to Canada. The tragedy briefly robs Abraham of his faith in God, turns his wife Sarah into a mindless zombie, and weighs down the frail shoulders of his remaining son, Isaac, with...