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When a man is healthy, the sound of his heartbeat is a solid, relatively high-pitched bong; when he is ill, it is a dullish, soggy boom. The highest heart sound is somewhere at the bottom of the range of a bass viol; the lowest is inaudible to human ears, even with a stethoscope. A delicate device to record these sounds on photographic film has been developed at Du Font's Haskell Laboratories by Dr. John Henry Foulger and Physicist Paul E. Smith Jr. The device consists of a microphone strapped to the chest, and a foot-long...
Total caries (decayed, missing and filled teeth) is highest in men from the most prosperous communities, lowest in men from the poorest. This ratio is partly caused by the large number of fillings in the mouths of well-heeled citizens...
...other instrument has such a range; the highest and lowest notes of the biggest organs nudge the limits of human audibility. No other has such a variety of sounds; the $100,000 contraptions of the cinema palaces can imitate anything from a peanut whistle to the crack of doom. No other instrument has such elaborate controls; organ playing, involving several manuals (keyboards), sundry pedals and sometimes hundreds of stops, makes 20-mule-team driving an utter cinch in comparison. An organist's opportunities for musical sins of commission are almost limitless...
During March and April cash-in of bonds hit a new high, sales were the lowest since November 1942. Over $450,000,000 worth of bonds were cashed in. At that rate, three months' redemptions equal nearly one month's purchases. Thus, on the eve of invasion, Americans at home were backing the attack by taking three steps forward, one back...
...striking success in the European theater of the whole B-26 Marauder type. Once regarded by many airmen as a hot and dangerous aircraft, the B-26 has proved to be the outstanding medium bomber of the European air war. Its combat losses (less than 0.3%) are the lowest in the theater...