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...comedy of the English drawing-room genre, but before long it may be seen that the author's grasp has caught up with his reach and the play regrettably wanders far a field into the less stimulating realm of force. The perennial vivacity of Helen Hayes does much to propel a vehicle that in spots lacks lubrication, and Henry Stephenson gives the wheels of comedy many a timely flick of the finger...
Helene Madison swims "free-style." which means she uses that adaptation of the Australian crawl which U. S. coaches have worked out as the fastest way in which a human being can propel itself through water. A swimmer using this stroke must have long, supple legs for much of the power comes from the hips, knees and ankles. The arms are used somewhat as in the trudgeon stroke. Helene Madison's feet are narrower than those of Johnny Weissmuller, famed male freestyler, but long enough to be good paddles. She has big hands and a tall, athletic body...
...issue reading that blood had been transfused from a dead person into a live one. Unless there happens to be a recent procedure unbeknown to the medical world at large, it seems rather incredible how this could be done since the motivating power, the heart, has ceased to propel the blood through the circulation Of course, it may be stated that the heart keeps on beating for a variable but comparatively short time after the beats can no longer be elicited with the ordinary clinical means, but these beats, probably more correctly termed contractions, prove to be too feeble...
...physics in which Professor Goddard, 47, has been experimenting for 17 years. The principle of rocket motion is simple-action and reaction. Escaping gases act in one direction, the rocket body in the opposite. The ground is not necessary for the rocket gases to push against in order to propel the rocket. Nor is the air. Such action and reaction can take place in a vacuum, a fact which has driven Professor Goddard on his experiments. His objective is not to see how far he can shoot a rocket but to investigate the physics of the earth's third...
...Huxley (Darwin's protagonist), eldest son of Leonard Huxley (editor, Cornhill Magazine), brother of Aldous Leonard Huxley (writer of lightly ironical books) last week was trying to organize a grand telepathic powwow. Beginning this month and continuing for 16 weeks he wants people who believe that they can propel their ideas and wishes towards others to try doing so, and report results to him.* Particularly does he want the blind to experiment "to determine whether a special sensitiveness compensates for the loss of sight...