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Four years after the operation she tripped, fell 20 ft. down a stairway. Soon she grew apathetic, dullwitted, unable to feed herself. A sample of fluid from her spine showed traces of blood. Her doctors concluded that a blood-filled tumor had developed on the outer layer of the brain. The skull was trephined, clotted blood removed from the left side of the cranial cavity, bloody spinal fluid from the right. Later, the patient seemed like a person with no brain at all. Bedridden, apathetic, twitching spasmodically, she died...
...real interest in the Civil Service. The spoils system has been more widespread under this administration than previously because the establishment is larger. Only if they could be promised a half-and-half division of the jobs would the managing politicians be willing to classify all except the top layer of Federal job holders...
...matter of decelerated radio waves last year to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. At that time there was some discussion of whether the observations were dependable and, if so, what could be the cause. Ordinarily radio waves are held close to Earth by the Kennelly-Heaviside layer of electrified air. "Echoes" have been observed, however, which indicated that the signals sometimes escaped and bounced back, in a fraction of a second, from some higher atmospheric layer.- It has been assumed that these vertical detours caused an illusion of a slackening of horizontal speed...
...developed that the Charles is abnormally muddy at this season, so that a layer of silt became deposited upon their respective costumes. Anxious to remedy the faux pas the young man was quick to suggest they retire to his room, where by means of a forceful stream of water from the shower fixture overhead they removed the silt from their clothes-simultaneously...
...Sciences (see above), Physicist Robert Williams Wood of Johns Hopkins showed how a brilliant scientist may adapt for his own use a technique worked out for a wholly differ ent purpose. At California Institute of Technology, Dr. John Donovan Strong has been coating telescope mirrors with a thin, even layer of aluminum by placing the glass in a vacuum tank, boiling the aluminum off an electric coil so that the aluminum vapor deposits itself on the glass. At Johns Hopkins Dr. Wood used the same method for laying down on his plates first a thin coat of hard chromium, then...