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...subject is seated and an attendant holds the head tilted backward about 45°. This is the usual position for a nasal examination. A speculum is introduced into the nostril and under direct vision the spray tip is inserted upward along the septum until definitely past the middle turbinate. If it impinges on the roof of the nose it is slightly withdrawn. The bulb is squeezed the number of times required to introduce i cc. of solution. This amount completely covers the olfactory area. A similar procedure is then carried out on the opposite side of the nose...
...medicine show, the show-wagon burns and they take the proprietor's daughter back to their farm. Pretty Sally Watterson (Irene Dunne) is a great help around the barnyard. It takes her longer than it should to make Peter propose but that is because Peter is a trifle backward. Eventually they marry and plan a house on the hill above the cow pasture. All this, told with a maximum of apple-blossoms, old songs and stringed accompaniments is one portion of High, Wide and Handsome, written and scored by the reliable partnership of Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein...
...Navy fliers launched by catapults at an acceleration of five times "gravity speed" temporarily weigh five times as much backward as they ordinarily weigh downward...
Last week Dr. Peet prescribed the method of administering this: "The subject is seated and an attendant holds the head tilted backward about 45°. This is the usual position for a nasal examination. A speculum is introduced into the nostril and under direct vision the spray tip is inserted upward along the septum until definitely past the middle turbinate. If it impinges on the roof of the nose it is slightly withdrawn. The bulb is squeezed the number of times required to introduce ice. of solution. This amount completely covers the olfactory area. A similar procedure is then carried...
...tongue out. She was only becoming first across with tongue out. Two postmen took their lunch hour to be first mail-carriers across. Other firsts: the man who pushed a pill box with his nose, the girl who walked the chalk line in the centre, the boy who walked backward the whole...