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...Workman (C) led at the firing of the pistol. Wilberforce (C) then went to the front and stayed there for a mile and 2/3, when he dropped out on account of a stitch in his side...
...behind the Englishmen. Just before the end of the second mile, little Clark [H.B. of Harvard], who had been pluckily sticking with the leaders, dropped on the track in a faint. Smith of Oxford was soon forced to retire owing to cramps, and the last mile was fought between Workman and Palmer (Y). Workman outran Palmer in the last 1/3 mile, to win amid the wildest imaginable enthusiasm...
When Dr. Hamilton started out, the A.M.A. had never held a meeting on industrial medicine, and technical papers on it by U.S. doctors were rare (though European work on it filled volumes). There were safeguards of sorts against physical accidents, but for a workman who spent years absorbing a slow but deadly poison, there was little thought. Dr. Hamilton had heard of men choked by carbon monoxide in the steel mills, of men palsied by white lead poisoning, of others disabled by arsenic and cyanides, of men with the "bends." To Alice Hamilton's socialist conscience, all this...
Full Speed Ahead. On Truk. in the Caroline Islands, War Surplus Salvager Oliver C. Stine ordered a native workman to chop apart an awkwardly shaped, 1,000-lb. chunk of rusted scrap, took over the acetylene torch himself when the workman failed to make satisfactory progress, got positive results whenthe object's outer casing began smoking and split open, hurriedly stopped salvaging when he peered inside, recognized a Japanese torpedo warhead...
...covering his face, neck drawn in. The minutely defined muscles of legs, arms and chest were bulging in their final death spasm. Theorized Archaeologist Maiuri: "Judging from the body's musculature and from the fact that the man was fleeing alone, I would say that he was a workman or a servant. He waited under some shaky roof or vault, hoping that the storm of lapilli, pumice and ash would pass over. Then, in the midst of the blinding storm and blackening cinders, he attempted flight and sank deep into the growing piles of lapilli. He fought...