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When Lister's ideas of cleanliness came into vogue, style was to keep everything wet with carbolic. Instrument tables were covered in towels wet with the acid, sponges were kept in it, the room was sprayed with carbolic acid until foggy. In those days catgut came in a five-foot coil to be soaked and sterilized by the doctors and "horsehair was obtained by going out to the ambulance stable and pulling out a handful from the tail of one of the horses...
...mile wind and five-foot waves, the little Otter had rolled as much as 38 degrees-enough to convince passengers, clinging desperately to handholds, that only tough, trained "destroyer crews" could ever sail in her, and then only under compulsion. Almost twice as many men would be required to operate her, per ton of cargo carried, as a conventional merchantman...
...coast of North Carolina, where the New River bites through a sweeping scimitar of sand and spills into the Atlantic, a new chapter was started last week in the U.S.'s book of military tactics. It was a chapter on whose subject Germany had already written a terrifying five-foot shelf: cooperation under a single command of combat arms in battle...
Pete MacGowan needed a tough five-foot putt on the eighteenth for his win. Don Elbel came up like a house afire at the end of his contest, and almost caught his man; he only lost by one down...
Redhaired, blue-eyed Bruce Barton, 54-year-old advertising tycoon, made millions selling Americans on reading (Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf); on clean collars (Cluett-Peabody collar ads); on shaving (Gillette); on working (Alexander Hamilton Institute); on Jesus and the Bible (The Man Nobody Knows, The Book Nobody Knows). Barton, a born preacher and sloganeer, a superb luncheon-club speaker, son of a Tennessee clergyman, implemented his creed of service by fighting his way into Congress in 1938 as an amateur from Manhattan's only Republican district-the Silk-Stocking Seventeenth, compounded of Park Avenue and nearby...