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...only on pulse rate and blood pressure measurements. When the anthropologist and the psychiatrist got together, they found that a lack of harmony in body measurements in a man may be related to personality weakness. Breadth of shoulder in relation to calf circumference, and skull circumference in relation to chest circumference are among the anthropological features which may point to particular personality traits. Environmental influences which may have acted upon young men are also being considered One of the questions which the Study is now trying to solve is: why do public school boys do better in college...
...featuring the usual knee-tapping and blood testing, but with special emphasis on medical history. Dr. Lucien Brouha at the Fatigue Lab is known by many undergraduates as the operator of the seven-mile an hour treadmill, which is designed to exhaust the student. Strapped to the student's chest are electrodes, which amplify his heart beats and record them upon a moving tape. In the first of two sessions at the laboratory, the metabolism and the respiratory pattern of each student are taken, after he has gone breakfastless and has rested for one-half hour...
...standstill this summer; some think that Russia may even inflict outright defeat on the Nazis. U.S. military opinion is that neither Britain nor the U.S. has any accurate knowledge of Russia's military strength. Stalin, like the tough gambler that he is, plays his cards close to his chest, trusts no man, not even his new partners, with what is in his hand...
...predictor for the first time in real action, 18-year-old Private Nora Caveney matched up the pointers, cried: "On target." As the guns spat, came the high whine of German bombs, a crash. A hot, jagged bomb splinter ripped through the sandbags and struck Nora Caveney in the chest. Another girl jumped into her place; another treble cry went up: "On target...
Moreover, from the German viewpoint, he was overly tender about the feelings of Frenchmen. He would not shoot them, no matter what their crimes against totalitarian progress. He even pardoned (with life imprisonment) zealous young Paul Collette, who last summer pumped bullets into the chest of Pierre Laval...