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...stream of compressed, preheated air. While passing through the flame, the air gets hotter, expands and rushes out of the furnace at high speed. A small amount of potassium chloride fed into it increases its ionization and makes it a better electrical conductor. Then the stream shoots into a hollow cone made of a heat-resisting, nonconducting material (see diagram). Electrical coils outside the cone create a strong magnetic field. As the gas speeds through, a powerful current of electricity flows across it and is collected by two electrodes inside the cone...
...used so far in 70 cases by Dr. Dotter in Portland and in 30 by Dr. Gensini in Syracuse, the procedure begins with insertion of a thick, hollow needle (under local anesthetic) into the femoral artery. Through the needle the diagnostician passes a flexible steel spring, like a plumber's snake (or like the bass strings of pianos and guitars). The needle is soon withdrawn. Inside the steel spring is a single-strand steel wire for stiffening. As in the Syracuse housewife's case, polyethylene tubing is slipped over the steel spring. But in her case, the doctors...
...States will not get full cooperation until it abandons its attemps to defeat Communism and accepts the challenge of competition. Unless Americans abandon their conceit that refusing to trade with Communists will prove the superiority of capitalism, the Soviets will suspect, quite rightly, that cultural exchange is only a hollow gesture toward co-existence...
Rather melodramatically, Ghosts tells of the "lifeless old ideals, the dead beliefs," which forced Helene Aving to remain married to her wealthy but dissolute husband, whose venereal disease leads to his son's insanity. Since his death, these ideals have seemed to Mrs. Aving increasingly hollow, the sham life she led increasingly meretricious...
...unique program, the School faces a number of dangers. First, the Conference could degenerate into a hollow shell, a well-organized outline. But this is unlikely, for students accepted into the program are well-qualified for the type and quantity of work required...