Word: rat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors have learned to spin the rats on a special centrifuge. When G is high enough (19 Gs or so), the distorted rat is doused with liquid nitrogen, which quickly freezes him. Then the doctors can open him up and find where his organs were when G was pulling at them...
Frozen in Death. Human subjects, of course, are not exposed to the deadliest struggle with G. Rats are the commonest victims for these experiments. They are spun in a smaller centrifuge until everything movable inside their bodies has gone well away from normal position. The rat is then dead, but unfortunately for researchers, his organs do not stay in their distorted position when the G-force is relaxed. The organs creep back toward their proper places, depriving the G-doctors of valuable information...
...other hand "Thinley's Last Stand" is built around a basically amusing topic--the imposition of an admissions screening process on the Liot House--but none of the implications of its humor are left to the reader's imagination. "Macavitys Rat" picks up the old theme of extra-talented experimental animals and leaves it rather the worse for wear. Two men collaborated on Pygmalion, Mark III," thus making it twice as long and half as funny as it should have been...
...prize in his pocket and a series of European concerts lined up, the winner was in no great hurry to flash the Dempsey punch on U.S. keyboards. Said Leon Fleisher, who has been playing quietly in Europe for two years: "Music in America is becoming a rat race. What all the towns . . . want these days on one program is a team of four pianos, a fiddler, a ballet dancer, and a juggler...
About Face (Warner) adds lustrous Technicolor and several lackluster songs & dances to the old stage (1936) and screen (1938) farce, Brother Rat. There are some strictly unmilitary goings-on at Southern Military Institute. Against Institute regulations, Cadet Eddie Bracken is secretly married to Phyllis Kirk, who is about to become a mother; Cadet Dick Wesson does not know that Betty Short (Virginia Gibson) is really Betty Long, daughter of the new commandant; Cadet Gordon MacRae sings such songs as Spring Has Sprung, and spikes an unpleasant chemistry instructor's hair tonic with green and blue dyes...