Word: imperfections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oxyquinoline sulphate scarlet r" which Dr. Bettman devised, they reduced infection and temperature, and enabled the children to gain strength. After nine days of this Dr. Bettman took auto-grafts from healthy areas of the patients' own thighs, and after three months' hospitalization discharged them, although somewhat imperfect, nonetheless whole...
Cornells Bol talks wittily in his imperfect English, likes sloppy, comfortable clothes, has a plump wife and five chubby sons for whom he keeps a horse and a ponycart. Born in Holland 52 years ago, he came to the U. S. in 1907 to study at Princeton, Stanford, the University of Montana, returned in 1916 to his native land where he worked on the development of sodium vapor lamps in the Philips laboratories and devised a way of sealing chrome steel to glass in X-ray apparatus. Last autumn he again bobbed up at Stanford as a research assistant. "Europe...
Even if the vision is imperfect, there is some public consciousness of what the President's voyage to South America, might mean. That hypothetical entity known as the man in the street would probably say that it was a further attempt to create a new balance in the New World to rectify the Old. Such glowing phraseology, however, does more to obscure than to instruct. What the New World is very much concerned about is its own inviolability. It might, indeed, be called a policy of enlightened selfishness. Certainly the great stake this nation has in keeping the Western Hemisphere...
Pseudo-hermaphrodites are much more frequent than true ones. In them the glands are of a sex opposite from the person's general character and configuration. The genitalia may be a confusion of imperfect male & female parts. These defects may sometimes be remedied by surgeons to bring the pseudohermaphrodite into line with its glandular sex. In no case on record, though, has the patient subsequently succeeded in producing a child. In glandular males, undescended testicles are brought from the abdomen into the scrotum. If a phallus exists, bound down by adhesions or imbedded in flesh, delicate plastic work...
...piston one square inch in cross section, the force transferred through the liquid to a 1,000 sq. in. piston is 100,000 lb. The catch is that to make apparatus able to stand such a stress is a delicate, costly and patience-taxing business. If the reinforcement is imperfect or if the materials are not the best in the tiny arena where the gigantic crush is finally focused, steel is likely to bulge like butter. Squeezed by 300 tons per sq. in., some of the contraction of a substance is due to a shrinkage of the atoms themselves...