Word: instead
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Reverse Pump. The most widely accepted model, developed by Sweden's Dr. Tage Malmstrom, consists of a metal cup with a rubber hose (part of which serves as a handle) leading to an ordinary bicycle pump with a reverse valve so that it pumps air out instead of in. Drs. James A. Chalmers and Roger J. Fothergill, in the British Medical Journal, report use of the gadget in 100 cases at Worcester. The metal cup is inserted in the opening of the birth canal and applied to the baby's skull. Pressure is reduced to half an atmosphere...
...than to supply Western Christian names in place of Hindu in the treatises on yoga technique." Dechanet is also on guard against the danger that the practice of yoga turns him toward "the Self, the It, the Absolute, the Wholly-One, the vague 'Ungraspable' of Hindu mystics" instead of toward "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the living God, my Creator and Father." What Dechanet set out to do when he first began to practice yoga in his early 40s was not to turn it into something Christian, but to use it for Christian purposes. His main...
...minute exercise full of odd sonorities. The orchestra plays them both cleanly, with notable purity of tone. The Sessions symphony was taken at a faster tempo than the composer intended, Watanabe recalls, and when Sessions heard of it he cabled, urging that they stick to the "correct tempo." Instead, Watanabe forwarded the tapes and got a second cable from Sessions: "I surrender...
...graduate students in the fall of 1961. The year is divided into three semesters instead of the standard two. Each semester runs 15 weeks: September through the middle of December, January through the second week in April, the last week of April through the first week of August. Students in the plan get a month's breather after the third semes ter, then start in again. Students and teachers both may take either two or three semesters each year. If they choose three, students can finish college, go on to graduate school and embark on a profession while they...
...smoothly takes plenty of careful planning. Pitt is busily revising its curriculum for trimester students, is splitting up courses traditionally tied together on a two-semester basis, e.g., Trig 1, Trig 2. To the horror of the students, exams have been squeezed into the regular schedule of each semester, instead of being allotted a week of their own. Pitt is also working on state agencies to revise the professional requirements for graduates. A law student at Pitt, for example, could finish law school in two years, but the Pennsylvania State Board of Bar Examiners has required three years...