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...Principles of Economics," a perennial Lowell Lecture Hall giant, gained more than 60 students from last year, and has had to double-up on its section men in order to bear the load...
...rate, the language of the first half of the book makes them all sound more like characters in a hopped-up battle between the cowboys and Indians. The enemy "is coming down the Volga with a flotilla of gunboats." Aten's commander announces at one point, "We'll load up with twenty-pound bombs and take out after him as soon as Bunny (Aten) finishes his tea." Those were the days when military airplanes rarely went faster than 200 miles an hour, and the involved dogfights possible at such low speeds are continually described in a tone that makes...
...reduce deaths after operations, Dr. Moore said, surgeons must keep on trying to preserve the exquisitely delicate balance in blood and other fluids. Also, he suggested, they might use modified forms of artificial respiration to ease the load on patients' lungs and release more energy for the rest of the body...
...This pump takes the load off the failing heart and increases the blood going into the heart muscle," Dr. John A. Jacobey, research fellow in Surgery, reported to the annual clinical congress of the American College of Surgeons last Tuesday in Chicago...
...withdraws blood from the aorta while the heart contracts, lowering the blood pressure within the heart and diminishing the organ's work load. Then, when the heart again relaxes and expands in the course of beating, the blood is swiftly returned to the aorta, restoring normal blood pressure throughout the system...