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...roses in front of him. Two feet away, where Mr. King could see it with the slightest turn of his head, hung a portrait of the Prime Minister's mother in a pose resembling Whistler's mother. The picture was illuminated from below by a table lamp...
...Westinghouse research scientists, in the process of making, testing and rejecting uranium for lamp filaments, had developed an efficient method for extracting and refining uranium. Their metal was the purest available, and an occasional dribble of thumb-size pellets filled the modest requirements of college and research laboratories. Then the telephone call came. Dr. Harvey C. Rentschler and Dr. John W. Harden were not dismayed...
Well, things have certainly picked up for us old beat-up, guinea happy, flip chasin', atabrine eatin', female hungry, geisha huntin' G.I.s. I'm writing this by the light of a 200-watt reading lamp, on an oaken writing desk, surrounded by large double windows (with glass in them) and sliding doors. This morning I awoke to find an olive-skinned, black-haired, shy young vision of Oriental loveliness, with broom in hand, busily engaged in giving my room, which I share with only two other liberators, a working over. When she became aware...
...Roland ("Beaver") Bevan, is good at both. He is as well stocked with football lore as Doc Blanchard's father was, and he has enough pain-curing equipment to stock a hospital for hypochondriacs (which Cadets are not). Some of Beaver's newer gadgets: an infra-red lamp for bruises and sprains, an ultraviolet lamp for infections, a paraffin oil bath to provide extra heat for sprains, a short-wave diathermy machine for deep-penetration heat, frigidaire ice packs for inflammations...
Lights Out! In Columbus, Ohio, Mrs. C. L. Eben, conked by a falling street lamp, collected $40 for damages to her umbrella, hat and permanent wave...