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...yard breast stroke Won by Edwin F. Ringer (H); second, Burton (B); third. Stephen S. Stanton (H). Time...
Hudson's specialties for 1935 are all-steel roofs and a power-vacuum gear-shifter called the "electric hand." Attached to the steering column directly under the wheel is an instrument connected with magnets on the transmission. A flip of the ringer selects the desired shift. Then, when the clutch is depressed, a mechanism on the transmission, actuated by the manifold vacuum, shifts the gears. If an optional automatic clutch is used, the shift occurs when the foot is raised from the accelerator. Thus in traffic the "electric hand" may be set at second speed before a shift...
Edwin Fisher Ringer, aged 18, of South Minneapolis, Minn., graduate of the Blake High School, Minneapolis. He was the leading school debater, was managing editor of Blake publications and secretary of the Blake Union. He is the son of Walter M. Ringer, machinery manufacturer. He intends to become a lawyer...
...progressed one important step beyond Moscow's technique because he had kept cats alive on nothing but ox blood. His method is to break down the bovine hemoglobin, the substance in red blood cells which carries oxygen throughout the body. This cell-free hemoglobin Professor Amberson mixes with Ringer's solution, common table and other salts in distilled water resembling the constitution of blood serum. Cats perfused completely with Dr. Amberson's blood mixture have lived as long as 36 hours. Then they died because the cell-free hemoglobin changed to methemoglobin which cannot carry life-giving...
...football coaches are keeping their eyes on is Henry (Mike) Adlis, big blond tackle on the Freshman team. He's a certain comer according to the best dope and he will undoubtedly be found in one of those open tackle positions next fall. They say he is a dead ringer for his brother Mike who was captain of boxing not so long...