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...fibrillation the muscle fibres start to flutter independently of each other, thus stopping the heart's organized pulsations. This condition in electric shock, according to Mr. Ferris, "results from an abnormal stimulation rather than from damage to the heart. In the fibrillating condition, the heart seems to quiver rather than to beat; no heart sounds can be heard with a stethoscope; the pumping action of the heart ceases; failure of circulation results in an asphyxial death within a few minutes. The medical profession long has recognized that ventricular fibrillation once set up in man is unlikely to cease naturally...
Lorre, perfectly cast, uses the technique popularized by Charles Laughton of suggesting the most unspeakable obsessions by the roll of a protuberant eyeball, an almost feminine mildness of tone, an occasional quiver of thick lips set flat in his cretinous, ellipsoidal face. It is not conducive to sound sleep to watch him operating on little girls, shuddering with sadistic thrills at public executions, or slavering over the wax image of Mme Orlac which he keeps in his apartment. One of the best scenes in the picture is the maniacal matter-of-factness of Lorre's drunken housekeeper who, finding...
Without a Constitutional quiver in his freckled right hand Franklin Roosevelt last week signed the Labor Disputes Bill. Then, lighting a cigaret, he leaned back and dictated a statement to the public: "This act defines, as a part of our substantive law, the right of self-organization of employes in industry. ... It may eventually eliminate one major cause of labor disputes but it will not stop all labor disputes. . . . Accepted by labor, management and the public, with a sense of sober responsibility and of willing cooperation, however, it should serve as an important step toward the achievement of just...
Sentimentalists may sigh upon inspecting the Announcement of Courses for 1935-36, which has just been released. The Department of English has actually challenged the Medieval picturesqueness of the prevailing arrangement and has substituted clarity and logic. Many sensitive heartstrings may quiver at the thought of corrupting English 2 into English 22; to some the progression from the Anglo-Saxon of 3a through the Elizabethan of 32 and the Alexandrian of 50b to the Georgian of 26 may spell abracadabra. Nevertheless, hoary-headed tradition must retire to its armchair when faced with a definite improvement...
...certain cases of disease and poisoning, however, the heart behaves like a badly timed automobile engine. It goes into an uncontrollable quiver. Every fibre of the complex heart muscle twitches without any apparent relation to the twitching of other fibres. This condition is called fibrillation. When fibrillation concentrates around the auricles, it becomes a serious heart disorder. Fibrillation around the ventricles quickly ends in death...