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Refinements on the familiar, far too heavy Diesel engine are reported by Mr. Sperry after years of research. The new motor weighs close to the lightest gasoline engine; is capable of delivering speed and horsepower comparable to good racing motors of the normal type. Experts read the news with deepest interest, hoping that widespread tests will confirm Mr. Sperry's belief that the new power plant meets every air requirement ; that by elimination of the fire hazard it will add an enormous safety factor to flying; particularly for commercial and passenger planes...
...college men generally, the feeling being that when a rupture such as this occurs in quarters so high the whole cause of intercollegiate sport is injured. Certainly the present Harvard-Princeton situation casts rather a sardonic light upon the claims that sport breeds many virtues and sturdy normal qualities that are valuable when the athletes go out into the world...
...unable to account for his presence in the shovel, or to give any logical excuse for himself. Friends, summoned by the police, said that he had been in a state of exhiliration for days, but that they had no reason to suspect his actions to be more than normal. Documents in his pockets led police to believe that information on the case may be gained elsewhere, and the New York authorities have been apprised of the circumstances...
Anthropology & Medicine. Let doctors consult with anthropologists for light on human physical evolution, for data on human variation and for the furnishing of normal standards, said Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the Smithsonian institution. "The vast collection of both normal and pathological material in our Osteological, brain, and other collections is used nowhere near as much as it should be by the medical man and the surgeon. . . . [Physical anthropology shows for example] that the normal stature of an adult American male is not 5 feet 7½ inches, but anywhere between...
...Weiss continued his efforts to find means of preventing the rustling. The disease so far is uncontrollable and almost always fatal. Last week, also, he was preparing a report on another discovery-that when a case of pernicious anemia improves, the sufferer's heart spontaneously returns to normal size. Heretofore doctors had known that anemic hearts grow large (apparently to drive the thinned blood more copiously through the body), but had never observed the lessening in size. Here again Dr. Weiss refused to believe his senses, and consulted with Dr. Bernard Sutro Oppenheimer of Manhattan, chief of Montefiore Hospital...