Word: papere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chair by a rope of which the knots were sealed with wax, concealing no instruments, he was placed behind a curtain. In front of the curtain was a table on which were placed a pail of hot paraffin, a bucket of water, a pencil and a sheet of paper with three names for identification. When the room was darkened, Conjurer Dunninger caused the paper to be snatched away and returned it with this phrase inscribed upon it: "A word from Houdini." Then there protruded from the curtain a "spirit hand" which the magician later admitted to be a paraffin sheath...
...rheumatic fever (important and insidious cause of heart disease) has shown encouraging effects in 270 cases of the fever.-Dr. James Craig Small of Philadelphia. By means of the cardiotachometer, machine with amplifying vacuum tubes, the tiny electrical current generated by each heart beat makes its record on a paper tape, like those in stock brokers' offices. Thus for the first time doctors can have a continuous record over hours or days of the effect of disease, drugs or exercise on the heart.-Dr. Ernst Philip Boas of New York City and Dr. Morris M. Weiss of Louisville...
...Newmarket, the Prince of Wales waved his hat, and the crowd yelled as Scuttle, the King's three-year-old filly, worked up smoothly to pass Lord Dewar's Jurisdiction and win the Thousand Guineas Stakes, worth $5,000 to the winner. Next morning every paper in London printed a picture of the King with a broad smile on his face...
...recognition of the excellency of their work." Said he at the last certificate presentation in February: "It is a fine thing to be the first in any line, and you may well be proud of the engrossed certificates which may be handed down to later generations so long as paper and ink will hang together...