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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lack of space. But the infirmary's 44 years present it with drawbacks beyond space limitations. The concepts of sanitation and isolation under which it was built have been superseded. No 1946 infirmary would have its private rooms without running water and its doorways too narrow to wheel beds through. Nor would a 1946 infirmary be without a separation ward for checking incoming patients to be sure they have, for instance, a cold and not scarlet fever. Although the Hygiene Building facilities are superior to Stillman's, it, too, is handicapped by lack of size. Dr. Bock declares that...
Which is the left side of a clock? Looking from the front, the steering wheel of a car is on the right side; the starboard running light of a ship is on the left. To determine the "side" of anything else, you look at it from behind or, really, you consider the object's own viewpoint. Why slight the clock...
During the war, Bandleader Marshall De Camp got sick & tired of losing drummers in his eight-piece band, Aces of Rhythm. So he hooked his drums to a quarter-horsepower electric motor. A rotating wheel swatted the cymbals; a clutch and gear shift changed the tempo from foxtrot to waltz. The boys in the band unanimously agreed that the mechanical Krupa "sounded like hell." But most of the dancers in the small Minnesota and South Dakota towns were willing to settle for a steady beat. Its strongest champion is the proprietor of the Lyon County (Minn.) dance pavilion, where...
...only talkative contestant in the race to produce a cheaper car was James D. Mooney, bouncing, bustling president of Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. His plans: a six-cylinder model weighing only 2,500 Ibs. (smallest Ford weighs 3,011 Ibs.) with standard wheel base, wide seats, and "gasoline economy which will amaze the driving public." The 1947 Willys will be in production early next year, will sell for less than any of the present models of Plymouth, Ford, or Chevrolet...
...ricksha men; with their families they number over a million. They are as varied as their nation's cities. There are the muscular runners of Chungking, who bound downhill in great strides; the philosophical businessmen of Peiping, who pad their wages with commissions from shopkeepers to whom they wheel their riders; the noisy hagglers of Shanghai, whose existence is the meanest. Everywhere their shuffling straw sandals, klaxon cries and stained sweatbands are as ineluctably a part of China as temple gongs, a plum tree beside a bridge, or the marble Temple of Heaven...