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Winston Churchill's hunched body rose, his heavy gold watch chain shining in Parliament's yellow-glassed sunlight. His hands were in the pockets of his jacket. His great, willful, strangely babylike head surveyed a packed House, and his words began to growl. For two days Winston Churchill had patiently taken a lambasting from his critics, both serious and snide. Now it was his turn. He began it with an invocation to the spirit of Democracy which was destined for history...
...Will wear at least 5,000, probably 10,000 miles on cars driven no more than 40 m.p.h. Though Thiokol is not quite so strong or wear-resistant as natural rubber, it does not deteriorate with age or from exposure to air, sunlight...
...proper proportion. Vag had a jumbled image of the Larz Anderson Bridge on a Saturday afternoon in the fall, of the workmen putting wooden treads on the Widener steps and driving stakes into the ground to guide the snow-plows, of Memorial Hall, with thin trickles of sunlight straining through the colored glasses, and rows of heads bent over tables, and of that first light green tinge the trees in the Yard take on about the time of the first Yard Concert...
Occupational Cancers, which are caused by external environmental agents such as X rays, radium rays, ultraviolet rays, certain complex tar and benzine compounds, hundreds of other carcinogenic (cancer-causing) chemicals. Farmers and sailors may develop skin cancer through long exposure to the ultraviolet rays of sunlight. Cotton spinners in Britain, who are constantly exposed to the carcinogenic mineral oil used in lubricating the spindles, may develop "mule spinners' cancer" of the scrotum. Obviously, said Dr. Cramer, occupational cancer is a "preventable disease." Social Cancers, an expression coined by Dr. Cramer, which include cancers of the esophagus, stomach, upper digestive...
...case is practically hopeless. Ortiz' diabetes, according to the doctors who reported to the Senate's investigating committee, is of the mellitus type, productive of small hemorrhages destructive of the eye's retina, though he is "able to perceive objects with the aid of strong sunlight and positive periscopic lenses." Dr. Castroviejo is, on the other hand, famed as the author of over 400 operations involving the grafting of a normal piece of cornea in a diseased eye. Reduced to one-syllable words, the doc is good but the case is bad. Chance of recovery...