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Performance is even more important to a circus than novelty and this year John Ringling has banked more heavily on it than ever. There are no new major performers. But Con Colleano, the only man on earth who can turn a front somersault and land upright on a tight wire without cutting himself in two, is as exciting as ever, though he did miss it four times and have to give up at the first matinee. In the hush that falls before his act, the crackle of a peanut shell shakes the air like a splintered plank. Asked what...
...followed that idea through, found that a growth in the coverings of the brain is frequently associated with epilepsy. Small whitish bodies called Pacchionian granulations grow out of the arachnoid (middle) membrane. Dr. Ney's belief is that man's upright posture conditions the growth of Pacchionian granulations. The growths frequently erode, in one direction through the dura mater and into the skull, in the other direction through the pia mater to the brain itself. Their final effect often is to peg the brain to the skull...
Fault. Leland Stanford University maintains Professor Lydik Siegumfeldt Jacobsen and a vibration table by means of which he simulates the shocks and temblors of earthquakes. Miniature buildings on the table rock, collapse or remain upright as actual buildings might behave under natural conditions. Skyscrapers of more than 30 or 40 stories are generally flexible enough to resist earthquake oscillations. Buildings of four to 30 stories run greatest risk because they tend to vibrate in unison with quakes. Last week's earthquake proved Professor Jacobsen's thesis. In Long Beach & vicinity mainly low structures were wracked and razed. Skyscrapers...
...mountain and cascade down the face at a speed terrifying to behold. Partway down was an unnoticed little rise in the snow. When they hit that, the skiers were shot through the air for 50 ft. Of the 16 contestants, Gasperl of Austria and Kjelland of Norway miraculously lit upright after hitting the bump, and shot on down the hill instead of cannonballing askew in a flying tangle of arms, legs and skis. The winners were timed at a speed never before reached by man on his feet -a world's record of 100 m.p.h. (1932 record: 89 m.p.h...
...than do his legs when he exercises outdoors; blood flows through the brain arteries faster than through any part of the body except the eye retina; the pressure of cerebrospinal fluid on the brain is five or six times greater when a man lies prone than when he stands upright; "it seems probable that the brain has a rather high metabolism when compared to other organs or to the body as a whole...