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Physicists, experts on the chemical and physical actions and reactions of the body in health and disease. The other sort of physicists, those who deal with inert matter and motion, may also be called...
Suddenly a great boom disturbed the comparative quiet?the sound of artillery fire. Boom! Coffee cups stopped halfway to open mouths. Boom! Newspapers fell to the breakfast table. Boom! Boom! Boom! Inert bodies squirmed between the sheets. Boom! Boom! Boom! Alert businessmen and women resigned themselves to a long count?they hoped it would be a very long count. Boom! Boom! Boom! Twenty-one blank shots, in all, were fired. Ears strained for the 22nd. The pause grew longer and longer, but the 22nd boom never came...
...William Ledbetter, wrestler, wrapped powerful thighs around the head of Kenneth Turpin, wrestler. He squeezed. Kenneth Turpin wriggled, got away, applied his thighs to William Ledbetter's head. Ledbetter wriggled, got away. These tactics (called by wrestlers the "head scissors") continued. Soon Kenneth Turpin dropped to the canvas. Inert, he was rushed to the hospital. Doctors found a broken neck. Turpin died...
...Delight, Ark., last week, masked men flogged, kicked, pummeled, prodded, left inert one George Hewitt, 29, lately acquitted of a murder. Mr. Hewitt was requested to leave Delight...
Stirring Sleepers. To the beds of 18 young men was attached mechanism to record their every movement while sleeping. The most nervous subject stirred once every eight minutes. The most inert, once every 25 minutes. The average: 13 minutes between stirs. Purpose of the experiment: to discover the efficiency of beds, springs, mattresses, pillows.?H. M. Johnson and G. 'E. Weigand, Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh...