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Varda used to work on gesso (a smooth-surfaced, white mixture of rabbit glue and whiting solution) and with mosaics. He turned to collage because gesso and mosaics are too bulky, too expensive to transport, the ingredients are too dear-and Varda can snip out a collage in less time than it takes him to dream up a mosaic. "While the vision is full upon me," he says, "I can finish a whole painting [collage...
...same time, Mr. Lewis was having a manicure and a shoeshine to which he paid scant attention, since he was entirely engrossed with instructing the barber and watching in the mirror every snip of the scissors...
...intensity of the German assault, with more than 100 planes, suggested that Germany was trying to snip the northern convoy route while round-the-clock daylight and the necessity of squeezing between polar ice drifts and the Norwegian coast make the slow convoys easy targets. To meet this threat, Russia's air force opened an offensive against airfields, repair shops and fuel depots tucked in the folds of conquered Norway, flanking the Arctic route. The Russians said that 40 Nazi planes were destroyed by the first sweep, while Soviet flyers kept on probing deep into fjords and valleys...
...test the hormone, Dr. Ivy and his workers operated on 30 dogs, cutting off a snip of their small intestine directly below the stomach, and tacking the stomach on again to the second section of the intestine. Such short-circuited dogs usually develop ulcers and die within a few months. Dr. Ivy gave ten of them injections of enterogastrone, three times a day, for seven months. Results: 16 of the untreated dogs (80%) developed ulcers; only one of the treated dogs (10%) was stricken...
...noted surgeon, Dr. Irvin Abell of Louisville. The division of labor, he said, is clear. Any ulcers which do not heal with rest and special diets must be dealt with by surgeons. As for surgery, he went on, most experts believe it does little good merely to snip out the ulcer and patch up the stomach or intestine. For the incorrigible stomach keeps on brewing its corrosive acid. Most authorities hold that the best procedure is to cut out "three-fourths to four-fifths of the stomach." Since the stomach is primarily a churn and a reservoir for big meals...