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Louis Purchase was whisking back & forth in a bright red Waco UEC, trailing a banner reading DRINK KIRCH'S QUALITY BEVERAGES. Suddenly, a handful of oil dashed against his windshield, and his engine coughed as though it had swallowed a bone. He looked down for a place to land. But Pilot Purchase was over Coney Island on a Sunday afternoon, and all he could see was 800,000 people in bathing suits. A hundred feet behind the beach was the only open space, Dreamland Park: a few tennis courts and flower beds. He dropped quickly, barely missing one hump...
There are two bones in the lower leg: the small fibula and the large tibia. Dr. Brockway cuts the tibia halfway through at right angles, slits it down to the desirable length, cuts it again at right angles to make a Z-shaped break. The fibula is cut slantwise. Pins are inserted in each bone above and below the break and after the flesh heals around them, are connected by a turnbuckle which is screwed 1/20 to 1/25th of an inch each day until the leg is stretched. The patient feels no pain during the stretching. Three inches...
...became the subject of a difference between two New York columnists. In this corner, Gargantuan, dandy Lucius Beebe, who amiably considers Groton U. S. Educational Institution No. 1 because it stands at the top of the private school social scale. In that corner, Gargantuan, dowdy Heywood Broun, whose funny-bone never tingles pleasantly over reactionary boarding schools...
...William M. Wood took over the management of certain textile mills belonging to the Ayer interests which had operated on part time for three years at a loss; he put all mills at full capacity, cut prices to the bone, soon made so much money that the company expanded into the vast American Woolen...
...John Spinachseed of the Whiskey Straits Paleontological Society has just sent word of a discovery which will revolutionize the world of science more than somewhat. Burled beneath some heavy, coarse-grained Potsdam holystone beds, lie has uncovered a peculiar organ, perfectly preserved. It is a circular piece of fossilized bone with a hole in the middle which resembles a large lifesaver the kind you eat. Although his colleagues have not yet confirmed his suspicion, spinachseed is certain that the fossil is that of the left nostril of a metamorphic ape. He has already named the ape Spinachanthropus in honor...