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Shelved Hips. Dislocation of the hip is apt to recur when the muscles which hold the hip bone into the shallow hip socket have been weakened. Injury or infantile paralysis will do this. Dr. Marion Beckett Howorth of Manhattan invented a way of overcoming the slipping of the joint. He cuts through the flesh at the hip, lays bare the joint. Then he carefully breaks the part of the pelvic bone which forms the upper edge of the hip socket. The loosened piece of bone he bends down and wedges securely with bone grafts. After healing, the downturned chunk...
...Intense storms were seen in 1799 and 1833, and one observer in 1866 said that the shower was "as thick as a Christmas snowstorm." But in 1899 the display was much diminished, and astronomers have been watching during the last 2 years to see whether the earlier intensity will recur...
Business Prophecy. There are two fundamental ways of looking at the future of business: 1) it is all a matter of chance; 2) what has happened is apt to recur. Economist Irving Fisher of Yale, an advocate of prophecy in business, contends that prosperity and depression repeat with mathematical regularity. Against this contention argued Mathematician Edwin Bidwell Wilson of Harvard. "An economist can find periods in anything if he uses the right system. But those periods would be but figments of the imagination." To prove his point Professor Wilson showed that an array of business statistics which displayed periodicity also...
...danger much greater than appreciated by most physicians. President Herman X. Bundesen of Chicago's Board of Health arranged for a nationwide radio broadcast to warn and instruct the country. Some authorities believe that one in every ten or 20 persons harbors dysentery parasites. The disease may recur long after an apparent cure. Applicants for food-handling jobs should be examined several times, required to keep themselves thoroughly clean. Those who have had the disease should be examined once a month for four months, every six months thereafter for the rest of their lives...
...Republicans of the Reconstruction Era, that race feeling by no means applies to whites alone. On this issue, no compromise is possible. Mixed juries will result in innumerable disagreements regardless of the defendant's guilt or race; all the terrorism which has blighted the tradition of the South must recur with undiminished zeal. An even greater degree of injustice is a high price to pay for the conversion of nominal rights into real rights, if their exercise is more than ineffectual...