Word: sliver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anatomist Eleanor Linton Clark of the University of Pennsylvania accidentally ran a glass tube, fine as a hair, into her finger. A few days later, when her finger swelled, her husband & colleague, Anatomist Eliot Round Clark, probed out the sliver of glass. To their amazement, the Clarks saw tiny blood vessels sprouting inside the tube. Because they were scientists, that gave them an idea. They got three rabbits, slit the delicate skin of their ears over a dime-sized area, sandwiched the ears between oval glass windows, long as an egg. Then, because they were scientists, they proceeded to annoy...
...village. Author Egerton interviewed fortunetellers and sorcerers, attended dances, investigated charms, drank palm wine (it tasted like flat ginger ale), picked up stray bits of local lore. Sample: as fee, a Bangangté midwife is given the bananas on the tree where she has hung the sliver of bamboo used in cutting the navel cord...
...members of the Geological Department are on field trips in Central and South America. Professor Graton assisted by Oscar Gerald, has flown to Fern to study copper deposits at Cerro de Pasco mines. At the same time Professor McLaughlin is working on the west coast of Mexico, surveying for sliver and gold mines...
...America has a watch which, besides telling the time, boasts a chime, a barometer and a gadget that registers how the moon will be each night. Last week as I. B. A. gathered for its annual convention at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., the moon was only a thin sliver - an appropriate symbol for the investment banking business. Keynoted retiring President Frothingham: "Broadly speaking, there has for some time been no flow of new capital, the capital that employs men. From an average of $5,000,000,000 of new capital raised annually in 1924 to 1929, this has fallen...
This latter, a magnificent red and sliver creation of doubtful parentage, is completely equipped with a non-detachable, streamlined ladder of some 100 feet in length...