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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Toronto General Hospital. They are proof for a professional paper that Dr. Gaby is writing. Never before, so far as the two surgeons can learn from the medical literature, has an adult lost so much skull and lived. Nor children. Sometimes a baby is born without a skull top, dead...
Oceanographer Iselin knows what he wants. He wants to see, touch, examine the Globigerina ooze of the ocean bottom, the volcanic debris of the ridge top. To this end he has designed special apparatus: an enormous dredge with bulldog teeth which, lowered to the bottom will take greedy bites of the ocean floor; three miles of cable to take it down and bring it up again...
...contrivance was steel framed, nine feet in diameter, with a sealed hole in the top and a ballast to make it stay upright. After completing it, Jean Lussier had been forced to hide his ball in a barn lest the Canadian Government take it away and prevent his stunt. No less than 100,000 people gathered on the river bank, most of them hoping that the ball would break on the rocks under the 155 foot water-drop...
...Morgan stood, last week, at the corner of Broad and Wall streets, Manhattan, he doubtless noted that increasing the size of the private dining room of J. P. Morgan & Co. is altering the Wall street skyline. But he had no fears that the great House of Morgan would become top-heavy, tumble. Its four stories rest on foundations built to support thirty...
Down the side of Pike's Peak, Col., coming at a precipitous rate of speed, with an enormous roar, was seen last week a hairy and runtlike Negro. On reaching the bottom, 48 minutes after he had left the top, the Negro said that he had broken the record for coming down Pike's Peak and that his name was Dolphus Stroud...