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Bataan's end was different. Here was no blow that could be repaired in a navy yard. With Bataan went 36,000 or more courageous U.S. soldiers-heroes, three out of four of whom were sons of the Philippines. They had been worn to hollow shadows of men by 15 days of smashing by the finest troops of the Son of Heaven. Because the U.S. had been well satisfied with the world it lived in, had pinched its boundless flood of pennies and sat alone, those U.S. soldiers had stumbled ragged, sleepless and half-starved through the last days...
...Down (by John Steinbeck; produced by Oscar Serlin). Primarily intended for the stage, The Moon Is Down was first rigged up as a novel (TIME, March 9), and inside five weeks sold almost half a million copies. Theoretically the tailor-made play should beat the makeshift novel all hollow; actually it can't come near it. Steinbeck's fable of how some unnamed but obviously Nazi invaders take over an unlocalized but obviously Norwegian mining town, meet with icy resistance and are themselves worn down, never really comes to life in the theater...
Today's familiar metal and rubber stethoscope (Greek for chest examiner) is quite different from Laënnec's-a hollow bell or a cap with a hard rubber diaphragm to be placed on the chest or back and tubes to transmit sound to the earpieces. And its use is anything but simple. Since Laënnec hundreds of books have been written about the snaps, crackles, hums, gurgles, murmurs, booms, bubblings, gratings and rustlings which Laënnec first heard and doctors still listen...
...beat of a healthy heart is lūbb-dūpp: a hollow boom as the ventricles contract to pump blood, followed by the soft snap of the closing of valves to the aorta and lungs. Weak, doubled, out-of-step or extra sounds mean trouble...
...says Brigadier General Holland W. Case, Commandant of the Watertown (Mass.) Arsenal, and he gives most of the credit to replacement since 1918 of forging by centrifugal steel casting.* Steel for cannon is poured into horizontal molds which whirl rapidly until the metal hardens. Impurities are forced to the hollow center of the barrel, where they are easily bored away, and blowholes and shrinkages are avoided...