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Measures. British defense measures multiplied as necessity mothered invention. Someone discovered that, whereas a strong stream of water from a hose only spreads a fire ignited by incendiary bombs (thermite"), a gentle sprinkle from a stirrup pump with finely perforated nozzle, like a garden watering can, douses the incandescent particles instead of scattering them. All stores were soon sold out of stirrup pumps...
...giant star, like the one in the constellation Auriga which has about 4,000,000 times the sun's volume but only 15 times its mass, and which is only .000005 as dense as water. But as red giants contract, they get hotter, as air in a pump gets hotter when it is compressed. The sun appears to be some two billion years old now, and it is hot enough to live on atomic energy, converting hydrogen into radiation...
...latest feature to be added is "The College Pump" which first appeared in the March 8 issue as a column "for the stray line of Harvard verse, the pleasant non-sequitur of academic observation, and the simple fragment of phrase...
...Pump and Tubes. Contrary to common medical opinion, said Dr. Boas, aging does not inevitably bring heart disease and arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). There is a great difference, he continued, between natural withering and the "external insults" of disease. With age the human heart grows broader at the base, more pointed at the apex. Heart muscle fibres turn dark brown, heart valves stretch like old rubber tubes, lose their youthful elasticity. But all of these changes are normal, none spells doom. In healthy persons "the cardiac pump itself usually functions without faltering into advanced...
...dioxide and water. But some lactic acid is reconverted into glycogen, which is then available for further energy release. Last week Dr. George Bogdan Kistiakowsky and five co-workers of Harvard compared this operation to that of a gasoline engine supercharger, which uses the energy of exhaust gases to pump air at high pressure into the firing cylinders. The scientists told how they followed the reconversion of lactic acid into glycogen by means of radioactive atoms ("tagged atoms") of carbon...