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...English G. P. (general practitioner) who does everything from confinements to corn-cutting has no time, soon no desire, to keep up-to-date. The medical bigwigs are smothered in red tape. Worst of all, perhaps, are the specialists- typified by the word "Harley Street"- who exploit the rich, scratch one another's backs to their mutual profit, in some cases make fortunes on the side by performing hush-hush abortions for careless socialites...
...dogs," he admitted, "I would hardly have believed that I would sometime present the subject of cat diseases before a group of veterinarians. However, constant association with any species of animal removes many dislikes." Some of the things constant association had taught Dr. Parker: "Very few cats bite or scratch except through fear"; a cat "can throw it [vomit] farther and harder than any other species of domestic animal" ; epilepsy is rather common in kittens ; castration of male kittens" should be done at about six months of age, spaying before the first year; bladder stones are very common...
...pulleys and counterweights, which allowed it to run out with the plane. The cable stood the shock of the 950-h.p. machine moving at 100 miles per hour. It held the remains of the plane, checked its speed, and, relatively speaking, eased it to the ground. With a scratch on his left arm the German ace stepped out of the wreck...
Vacation time to many of those connected with the Museum on Divinity Street means practical research work in the field. This summer undergraduates, Graduate students, geology section men, and professors are returning to old haunts to map, scratch, dig, and theorize in pursuit of science...
...Although the Harvard Bureau has been conducting intensive research on all of the technical aspects of traffic accidents and congestions, for a period of more than ten years, it recognizes that neither it nor--the other agencies working upon the situation have done more than scratch the surface. It is true, however, that there is now available a relatively simple formula of education, enforcement and engineering which, properly applied by training personnel, can invariably reduce traffic accidents and increase traffic efficiency...