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This equipment was first tried out on wax models of a human thigh. Afterward, when a surgeon used it to find a needle in a fat woman's shoulder, the tiny object, usually a surgeon's bugbear, was snagged in 47 seconds. Dr. Cole wishes the Army would give the method a trial, thinks it would be able to detect bullets or shell shards more quickly, cut down probing and cutting...
...shipmates who had been wounded. I swam over to see if I could help him. I was pretty weak myself from loss of blood. My jaw was torn open-about three and one-half inches-and I had two other wounds, one on my thigh and one on my ankle. But I didn't know about them then...
...cheeks were "streaked to the neck with charcoaled sweat, and the neck raw from chafing collar . . . the nostrils sore from running mucus. . . . There was pain in . . . the stooped shoulders straining downwards away from the pack . . . in the bent spine, in the small of the back. . . . Pain in the strung thighs, red pain in the chafed buttocks . . . in the gooseflesh skin of the thigh where a holster, or a knife in ihe trouser pocket, rubbed with the polish of dripping water." It was still dark when they stopped to rest at "a heap of stones . . . shown...
Alfred Stieglitz has been praised without end in terms both glowing and peculiar. Wrote Esthete Lewis Mumford in 1934: "In a part-by-part revelation of a woman's body, in the isolated presentation of a hand, a breast, a neck, a thigh, a leg, Stieglitz achieved the exact visual equivalent of the hand or the face as it travels over the body of the beloved." Cracked Artist Thomas H. Benton: "When Stieglitz aims his camera at a young woman's backside it is as if he had discovered for the first time in history that young women...
Down the corridor the Admiral's orderly had just turned into his room. At the sound of the shots he whirled, rushed back to meet the assassin running toward him. At point-blank range the assassin fired twice again. The orderly fell, a bullet in his thigh. But others had arrived; the gunman was overpowered...