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...used. Later, in the presence of his commanding officer, Lieut. Kliebert told correspondents what happened next: "The Japs who got through to one of our litter cases propped the man against a tree and five Japs took turns bayoneting him. I got three of them. . . . We saw Japs pull blankets off litter cases and line them up. ... They cut one of the poor lads from the top of his head to his feet, meanwhile laughing deliriously. Then they shot him through the head...
...seesawing brings the abdominal organs up against the diaphragm when the head is down with enough force to push the breath out; then, when feet go down, the organs pull down the diaphragm and air is drawn into the lungs. Other advantages of the Eve rocker: wounds and burns of the trunk can be attended to while rocking is going on; anyone can teeter the board for hours on end; it is harmless-ribs and liver cannot be injured...
...inspect the hospital. Presently the ranking officer of the party disappeared into the toilet and the colonel heard an unusual fuss. He went in to see what the trouble was and found the officer standing on the seat, pouring the bucket of water into the overhead reservoir, preparing to pull the chain. That, someone remarked, was what the Army calls "going through channels...
Swarthmore's Strand picked up the new planet while measuring the orbits of a double star in the constellation Cygnus. He found that in their circlings around each other the two stars deviated from the expected path in regular "oscillations" which could be explained only by the gravitational pull of a third body on them (as the Earth's orbit around the Sun is affected by the Moon). By measuring these deviations, he determined that their unseen companion was a body with about 16 times the mass of Jupiter (largest solar planet), that it revolved around...
...confused with weight. Mass is measured by the force required to change its motion (i.e., inertia). Weight is the pull of gravity on a given body...