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...machines. Abrams' main card is his method of "splanchno-diagnosis" (abdominal). It is applied to blood specimens, cultures of tissues from the body of a patient, or even to samples of his handwriting! The tests may be conducted in absentia with the patient 3,000 miles away. For best results the samples must be taken under certain prescribed conditions?dim light, no red in room, patient facing west! The specimens are placed on aluminum electrodes in a small, round box called a "dynamizer," connected by an elaborate wiring system with a "rheostat dynamizer" for amplifying the reactions, a " vibratory rate...
...occasional raids of a reinforced chorus, or visits of "old Frosty". Mr. Dunn Senior's office manager. Likewise, Maggie uses her opportunities to wind the obliging Joe around an attractive little finger. In the end, Andy, who appeared at first as a rather spoiled youth, emerges a finer, better specimen of manhood, due naturally to the effect of Mary Jane...
...years ago, has been hewed out in 25 tons of sandstone, near Vernal, Utah, by Dr. C. W. Gilmore, of the U. S. National Museum. It was hauled 152 miles over mountains to a railroad. It will take five years to clean and mount. The original specimen of the species is in the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. Diplodocus stood 16 feet high at the hips, weighed 18 tons in the flesh, had a tiny snake-like head and an elongated neck and tail composed of scores of vertebrae and tail-bones varying from three feet to one inch in length...
Nearly a ton of specimen granite is being prepared for exhibition in the University Museum as a result of the work carried on by the Department of Mineralogy last summer...
...enabled Professor Charles Palache to obtain quarry rights on a large ledge of granite in Greenwood Maine. K. K. Landis 3G, started work early in the summer with two miners and blasted hundreds of tons of rock all of which had to be examined and if interesting a small specimen had to be saved for experimentation in the laboratories in the University Museum...