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Conklin is primarily an embryologist, whose chief scientific work was done with such material as the eggs of the sea squirt and of a little mollusc named Crepidula. But he got his start in science before extreme specialization was as fashionable as it is today. So he is something of a jack-of-all-biology. Perhaps for the same reason he has the kind of extra-level head which men who are not specialists sometimes have. No dodo, despite his amiable nature, he has a merry tongue which articulates scientific problems with what the contemporaries of his younger days called...
...rectangles, "very gentle," move during the performance. At the Paris Exposition he constructed a fountain of mercury flowing through tubes; for the Consolidated Edison Building at the New York World's Fair he designed a "Water Ballet" of fountains from 14 nozzles, which are controlled by cams, squirt in choreographic rhythms in a five-minute cycle...
Last week the City of New York defeated a $1,000 damage suit by a similar courtroom gesture. A Mrs. Marion Owens, watching some Park Department tree sprayers, was accidentally hit in her open mouth by a squirt of insecticide. Although the Park Department claimed the spray was an oil mixture harmless to humans, Mrs. Owens alleged that it burned her throat. Last week in court, Assistant Corporation Counsel Aaron J. Arnold lifted a pint bottle of the insecticide to his lips, downed a lusty swig, won the case...
...Little Hells" spell disaster to the natives of El Salvador, the pocket Republic on that neck of land joining North and South America. "Little Hells'' are geysers of boiling water that hiss and squirt in the bowels of the earth until something gives way. It was El Salvador's "Little Hells" that last week brought the town of San Vicente toppling down, killing 250, injuring...
First sign that all the "Little Hells" were let loose was the presence of boiling water in the town drains. The nearby volcano was entirely quiet and remained so, but hour by hour the "Little Hells" increasingly erupted, finally produced what was in fact a squirt quake but made headlines throughout the world as an earthquake, "the worst earthquake there has ever been in El Salvador...