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...esophagus. In the first stage, a two-foot piece of his intestine was taken out and joined to the stomach; the free end of the intestine was led up toward the throat. In the second phase, a few days later, the free end was to be joined to the stub of esophagus that Robert was born with. But when a chest incision was made, the free end could not be found. Robert continued with his rubber tube...
...moviegoer enters Patrick's Lakewood Theater, he gets a stub and a chance to pick a winner by number from the list of entrants in three races. He keeps half the stub, leaves the other half with the management. During the evening's program, Patrick then runs old newsreels of three unidentified races (soon to be replaced by specially shot color films). Any patron who wins the three-horse parlay exchanges his half-stub for the evening's purse (usually...
...business, but those that remain will be interested to see what they were selling in 1946, and will no doubt be stimulated to advertise in later yearbooks by this display of kept bargains. The Corporation will have a chance to weigh the Album in one hand against the stub of a $5000 check in the other...
After that just about everyone forgot Alfalfa Bill. He wandered between Tishomingo and Oklahoma City-a skinny, bent figure almost lost in a bundle of mufflers and disheveled coats, a cigar stub still sticking out from under a now straggly old mustache. He spent his time writing long and scholarly books on politics, history, and economics, and peddling them to his friends...
Short, broad wings are good "future practice" in aerodynamics. The NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) proved years ago by wind-tunnel tests that the long, graceful wings of bombers are much less efficient above Mach 1 than clumsy-looking "stub" wings. As planes get faster, their wings will probably grow stubbier still until they diminish into something looking like an arrowhead...