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...Robert Harrington gently strapped Jimmy into the harness of a gadget called the pneumograph. When he switched it on, Jimmy's breathing pattern showed up as two wildly irregular lines on the moving chart. Then Dr. Harrington fitted Jimmy into a chest respirator (which he is experimenting with as a substitute for the iron lung) and a positive-pressure breathing apparatus, both of which, working together, made Jimmy's breathing deeper and more regular...
...Oshima, outside Tokyo Bay, stands the active volcano Mihara. It bubbles with sulphurous vapor and at irregular intervals shoots out molten rock. Japan has many active volcanoes, but Mihara is specially famed because of the romantic lovers who frequently kill themselves by jumping down its throat. Before World War II, 80 to 90 did this each year, and the steamship company that serves Oshima got rich on tourists who flocked to the island, they said, to watch the volcano, but really to watch the suicides...
...irregular sessions, which reportedly covered a week in late February, were held in the college's squash courts. They have since stopped, Rolfe stated...
...created, which allowed him to rough out tactical plans for Chief of Staff Vasilevsky to complete, leaving Zhukov time, as the need arose, to go out to take over a battle that was not going well. One of his first field commands after Moscow was to relieve Old Irregular Timoshenko, whose spring drive towards Kharkov had run into trouble. During this period Zhukov's field headquarters were near Kaluga, not far from Strelkovka, the village of his birth. As the Germans were driven from Strelkovka, they prepared to destroy the village and in the course of doing so, they...
...turning point was the tough, bitter, bloody battle of Stalingrad (September 1942 to February 1943). Zhukov masterminded Stalingrad, but was not there to take the German surrender, because he had to fly to besieged Leningrad to get Old Irregular Voroshilov out of a mess. During the Stalingrad campaign Zhukov told Stalin that his young, upcoming commanders could be trusted, and got Stalin to abolish the commissars. The crafty old dictator, however, instituted a system of Zampolits who, while they were not supposed to interfere with command decisions, were still the army's political directors. But Stalin promoted Zhukov...