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Harvard may always win, but, as was proven Saturday, not by divine right. The God of Ill Fortune hurled every obstacle short of a torrential whirlpool in the Crimson's course. Mammoth wakes, boat-stopping crabs and sweltering heat plagued the varsity eight...
Harvard kids have "very low pain thresholds," Harrison told Crimson reporter Doug Schoen in 1972, and went on to relate a story about one ballplayer who started screaming when he put his leg in a whirlpool bath. This wasn't like players...
...hospital, Mills usually uses a whirlpool bath (temperature: 100° to 108°) to warm and rinse the frozen area. To encourage healing, no dressing is used on the injured area. Sheets are sterilized, and attendants wear masks and gowns to prevent infection. Whirlpool baths are continued at slightly lowered temperatures. Mills also encourages exercises, not only to make frostbitten limbs flexible again but to give patients a psychological boost; they are often frightened by the appearance of the injury (blisters, swelling, discoloration). Mills allows alcohol because "it does offer solace" but forbids tobacco, which tends to constrict blood vessels...
...firms round the country are also feeling the first flush of recovery. In Waltham, Mass., Hewlett-Packard's medical electronics plant reports that orders are up 20% over a year ago, while in Norwood, Mass., Northrop Corp. is expanding its precision products plant to accommodate demand. Officials at Whirlpool Corp. in Michigan report that sales of appliances have been climbing since June...
...light: everything faded and the Sawtooths curved about us and we curved about Pegleg. He kept right on talking: showing his tricks to Bridget and Jenny, hanging a whirlpool device on the pool's ladder. Bridget and Jenny would grab the ladder, around the device, and Peg would grab their ankles and stretch them out flat, spreading their legs a bit, and they would giggle and Peg would spread a bit more and ask if it didn't feel damn good. Peg's wife appeared from nowhere and he told her to get some moonshine and homemade wine...