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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harriet" willed her body to the hospital. Anatomist Weaver put her in a tank of preservative while he consulted with other anatomists on what to do. Then he flayed and boned "Harriet" piecemeal, spent months getting out every last tiny nerve in her corpse. As Dr. Weaver freed a length of nerve, he kept it soft and flexible by wrapping it in gauze and cotton wet with alcohol. When "Harriet" became no more than a pair of eyes, a dura mater, a spinal cord and a lacework of branching nerves, Dr. Weaver stiffened her with white paint, pinned...
...most urgent surgical emergencies. Acute appendicitis, intestinal obstruction, perforated viscus, etc., while better treated at the first possible moment, usually will not be followed by the disastrous results from waiting six to eight hours that may be expected from neglect of an embolus for the same length of time...
...horizontal iron rod, which passes under the Yogi's arm to the upper side of his body, and from the end of which he is suspended by means of some sort of harness around his body. The rod is concealed by his half-closed hand and voluminous, wrist-length sleeves...
...Supreme Pontiff's intimates lately told newshawks that despite their advice Pius XI tires himself by talking at length with pilgrims, sometimes repeating the same idea over & over in different words. On his birthday, instead of speaking in French or Italian as he usually does, he addressed visitors in Latin, making mistakes which could be attributed only to fatigue. According to Rome Correspondent Sonia Tomara of the New York Herald Tribune, release of the papal encyclical on the cinema, longest ever issued to the U. S. hierarchy, was hastened last week before a breakdown of the Pope...
...carry the daily wastes of Los Angeles' 1,250,000 inhabitants to the Pacific Ocean constitute as remarkable an engineering achievement as the main which brings pure water over mountains from a lake 233 miles away. The main channels of the Los Angeles sewers measure 50 miles in length. To inspect them, to see that they were free of corrosion and cracks, has been the job for the past 16 years of a husky, ruddy, straw-haired athlete named Reuben Brown, 45, assistant superintendent of sewer maintenance. Mr. Brown enjoys his inspections, has in the course of them made...