Word: layering
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...stopped him. But Dr. Arthur Vineberg had been operating on animals, testing his own refinements of a basic technique suggested by British Surgeon Laurence O'Shaughnessy (who was killed at Dunkirk). Dr. Vineberg opened Watkins' chest, cut into the heart sac and removed part of its innermost layer, the epicardium. This exposed the enlarged left ventricle. From the abdominal cavity he pulled up a flap of the omentum, a layer of fatty tissue which has a generous blood supply, and attached it so that the omentum's blood would nourish the left ventricle...
...drilled at a third site came in, is now pumping at a rate of 2,400 bbls. a day. Says Esso France's President Serge Scheer: "Parentis No. 1 is already the richest well in all France. But we are still unable to say exactly how far the layer of oil extends below the sandy surface. We are currently boring well No. 4 [down to 6,232 ft. last week], and by March we expect to have six or seven wells in this region. Only then can we venture a definite estimate as to the extent of the discovery...
...raised above the water, probably by changes of sea level because of ice ages, to become full-fledged islands. Then furious tropical rain went to work on the porous coral, dissolving it. The center of the island eroded faster than the rim, particularly if it had picked up a layer of soil. Reason: the soil contributed acids that attacked the limestone...
...huge Hollywood sound stage one night last week, after the day's work was done, TV's most popular comedienne stood before a twelve-layer cake and read the words on the icing: "The first 100 shows are the hardest." But for Lucille Ball and Husband Desi Arnaz, the first 100 shows have also been rewarding: approximately 50 million people-one out of every three Americans-tune in to I Love Lucy every Monday night (CBS, 9 p.m.). No other regular TV show has ever claimed such an audience...
Next to Godliness ... In Columbus, Ohio, Carpet-Layer William Wolfe complained to police that the burglar who ransacked his house also took a bath, left a ring around...