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...wasn't, at least not for E. C. Bentley. Elephant's Work is written as smoothly as whipped cream, and it is not a jot more thrilling that a session with a charlotte russe...
Sidney Frame, physiotherapist, hung up, took a moment to jot down the information on a slip of paper and returned to an arthritic patient in the next room. The following afternoon he pulled up his creaking Rover 10 sedan around the corner from Wembley Park underground station and waited. Some 20 minutes later, a man stared into the car and in the same husky voice that the physiotherapist had heard over the phone asked again, "Mr. Frame?" "Yes, indeed," answered Frame cheerily, holding the car door open...
...which can be proved guilty of causing the explosive growth of cancer cells, suspicion has settled on an enzyme, hyaluronidase, already known to be a "spreading factor." Last week a slim, blonde, 24-year-old graduate student at the University of Wyoming announced that she had picked up another jot of evidence against hyaluronidase: it is found in abnormally large amounts of sarcoma (cancer of the connective tissues) in mice -a disease much like human sarcoma...
...proper figure and includes it in its calculations. It remembers intermediate figures for a fraction of a second, uses them when needed, and then rubs them out like chalk marks on a blackboard. It does all these things and more, without mistakes, faster than a human being can jot down a single figure. When the machine is through with one calculation, it rattles out the answer on an electric typewriter and starts the next job in a flash...
...will be extremely unlikely to exercise his curiosity by examining the operations and doctrines of proscribed groups. And even the student who doesn't go near NROTC headquarters will be wary of listening to ideas labeled "subversive," if he knows that a person "similarly associated" may one day jot this down on a Navy questionnaire for possible use by a government official who views all political activity as red and white...