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Last week Enrico Fermi had his picture taken holding a hollow globe of paraffin as big as a pumpkin, standing beside a piece of apparatus that looked like stovepipe put together with baling wire (see cut). Said Dr. Fermi: "The most obvious application of artificial radioactivity which can be foreseen is in the medicinal field. Radium, naturally radioactive, is used for the treatment of cancer. The completely new radioactive substances created in the laboratory should give medical men new tools, some of which may prove more efficient than radium...
...physician a person's blood pressure is only one of several physiological facts needed for making an intelligent diagnosis. The physician measures the blood pressure by wrapping around the patient's upper arm a hollow rubber cuff to which is connected a graduated column of mercury. Applying a stethoscope over an artery in the forearm, the doctor pumps air into the hollow cuff until it stops circulation. At this instant the air pressure in the cuff equals the maximum (systolic) blood pressure in the arteries of the arm, and the doctor hears a sharp blowing sound...
...originally honest construction business of Kreuger & Toll had become by 1932 nothing but a holding company for International Match and Swedish Match and a catch-all for Kreuger's credit deals. The report of the Swedish investigating committee seemed to confirm popular belief that Kreuger & Toll was hollow right down to the ground, that the Kreuger & Toll debentures sold by Ivar Kreuger in Europe and the U. S. in 1929 were about as worthless as any Kreuger securities except those that Kreuger had forged by hand...
...when Sir Samuel signed it in Paris (TIME, Dec. 16 & 23). Last week not peace but a capitulation to II Duce was made by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden amid cries in the House of Commons that His Majesty's Government were "cowards" and "pol-troons". These cries were hollow, ignored by the Baldwin Cabinet like so much wind, because in fact the Empire has now scrapped all reliance on the League of Nations and is arming at breakneck speed-not necessarily for war, per-haps for Pax Britannica to be imposed on restless Europe in the future...
...brief spring, the hot summers when the poor lay out on fire-escapes "and the child cried thinly and endlessly." But Poet Benét admits he cannot explain the city or its society to future cornerstone riflers, and to serious readers his apostrophe may sound a little hollow...