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...More than one-third of Nickel's nickel is used to toughen steel, 20% going indirectly into automobiles alone. But a 10,000-ton cruiser needs about 50 tons of nickel, a French 75-mm. field gun about...
This year Casey has retained a squad of 57, which is considerable larger than usual. Norman Fradd, director of Physical Education, has been giving the entire squad daily exercises to get the men in condition and toughen them up, in order to avoid the injuries that were so fatal to the 1932 team. The first scrimmage was held on Tuesday and a second one yesterday afternoon...
...might be prevented. Let severely burned or scalded people be plumped into a tub of tannic acid solution,* he advised, and be given quantities of liquids to drink. The drink balances the water lost from the system on account of the burning, while the astringent tannic acid relieves pain, toughens the body surface and loosens burned tissue. While the victim is in the bath, several attendants busily remove loosened, burned tissue and wash unharmed skin with soap and water. This procedure may take three hours. But it is worth while, for it tends to prevent infection, which causes the greatest...
...caustic which Dr. Cutler prefers is a "modified Carnoy's solution": absolute alcohol 6 c. c., chloroform 3 c. c., glacial acetic acid i c.c., ferric chloride 1 gm. The solution practically "tans" tissues it comes in contact with. Dr. Cutler uses it to toughen cysts which he must scoop out of brains...
Three panics (1873, 1893, 1907) and two depressions (1920-22, 1929-?) taught Professor Edwin Grant Conklin the wisdom which he imparted to the people of Montreal last week. Hard times & unemployment toughen the human race, said he. "Some of the weaker, according to the law of Nature, will naturally die under the stress of the times. Others will not propagate their kind. The strong and hardy will survive and reproduce. Thus the human race will be strengthened...