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...team made the Olympic team by a fairly roundabout route. All five men were members of Harvard's national-championship eight, which entered the Olympic trials and lost by two lengths to the Vesper Boat Club eight from Philadelphia...
...Chicago doctors have stopped bleeding from aneurysms (ballooned-out arteries) in the brain's arterial roundabout, the Circle of Willis, by drilling a hole in the patient's skull under a local anesthetic and inserting a stainless steel needle (see diagram). This has a hairlike electrode tip only 1/250 in. in diameter, which is positioned precisely by a double-grid system of X rays (see photos). The tip is the positive electrode for a minute current. The negative electrode is attached outside the skull. Within half an hour the iron in the electrode is "plated off" (in effect...
...mouth, from Cape Charles on the north to Cape Henry on the south, is 13 miles across, and until a few years ago it did not occur to anyone that it could be bridged. Getting from one side to the other meant a H-hour ferry ride or a roundabout inland route of some 100 miles...
...Antonio came to movies in a roundabout way. He enrolled at Harvard with the Class of 1940. He was a serious student with Group II grades, but he also had a great deal of fun. He was finally fired after a binge climaxed by the attempted arson of Claverly Hall. It was 1938, and de Antonio went to work on the docks to wait for America to enter the War. By 1945 he had flown thirty-eight bombing missions over Japan as the pilot of a Flying Fortress...
...Observer's freewheeling columnist tacked into journalism in a typically roundabout feminine way. The offspring of a long line of Presbyterian ministers, she proved impervious to the polish of six secondary schools and Cambridge University, toured the U.S. working as a waitress and short-order cook, then returned to England and became a journalist...