Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experts think that building an air-conditioned frame will be a sheer waste of effort. The trouble is really in the damp wall, they insist, and not in the air. They contend that the mural, which is painted directly on the plaster of the wall, must be peeled off somehow and pasted to a dry one. Rome's revered Art Critic Lionello Venturi, who refused to serve on the commission, has no hope that the commission will come around to the radical idea of peeling off the mural. Said he: "The painting is so sacred to them that they...
...helium, pumped to a pressure matching the depth of their dive. Divers sometimes unaccountably passed out during relatively shallow dives (up to four atmospheres of pressure used to be considered safe). The British study, involving some 2,000 tests, proved that oxygen, forced into the tissues under pressure, somehow intoxicates the central nervous system and poisons the brain cortex. (Whales, biologists have observed, bypass the whole oxygen problem by collapsing their lungs during deep dives...
...only a little lower than the angels. Her innocently disingenuous nosiness helps to bring about a marriage between two cripples, a therapeutic romance for a depressed war widow, a happy ending in a sordid triangle affair. Even her death from heart trouble helps: a friend, radical and fanatic, somehow learns a lesson in elementary humanity...
...Oosten hopes that this cycle can be interrupted somehow. One scheme: electrically charged barriers across the mouths of streams where lampreys spawn. This scheme may keep the eggs from hatching properly. Another plan: to shock the buried larvae by electrodes thrust into their mud beds. Dr. Van Oosten (and Lake fishermen) hope that Congress will not economize on a $20,000 appropriation promised for these experiments...
Throughout the year members of the state legislature noted this fact with a start, hoping somehow to place a tax on the high out-of-state percentage of students. Several bills to this effect were drafted, but they never came to a vote...