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Nervous Knockout. Deep-sea divers generally have been fed pure oxygen and helium, pumped to a pressure matching the depth of their dive. Divers sometimes unaccountably passed out during relatively shallow dives (up to four atmospheres of pressure used to be considered safe). The British study, involving some 2,000 tests, proved that oxygen, forced into the tissues under pressure, somehow intoxicates the central nervous system and poisons the brain cortex. (Whales, biologists have observed, bypass the whole oxygen problem by collapsing their lungs during deep dives...
When they reach a fast-flowing stream with a gravel bottom, the mated pairs dig a shallow nest by moving the stones with their suckers. Then male and female attach themselves side by side to a large stone. As soon as the eggs are fertilized, the adult lampreys...
...influx has brought problems. Pickpockets (mostly adolescent) are a nuisance. Pimps and prostitutes are on the increase. A score are arrested daily and one bold baggage was caught with a monk who had rented a hotel room for an unmonkish purpose. On West Lake, that lovely shallow blue pool, girt by green hills, watched by graceful pagodas and crossed by willow-draped causeways and moon-bridges, sampans drift full of rubber-necking tourists, earnest young intellectuals, tired officials and fat merchants on holiday. Lolling in one, with the tolling bells of distant temples in your ears and a book...
...Johnson '36, May 25, 1935. Distance--208 ft., 6 in. Discuss--J. H. Dean '34, May 19, 1934. Distance--157 ft., 7 3/4 in. Shot-put (16 lbs.)--H. P. Mendel '40, June 1, 1940. Distance--50 ft., 6 3/4 in. Hammer-throw (16 lbs.)--W. J. Shallow '40, May 20, 1939. Distance...
Meanwhile, out behind the Stadium, Crimson weight hopes have already begun to cystallize. The Harvard 16-pound hammer record of 170 feet 1 inch was established on May 20, 1939, by W. J. Shallow '40. It is about as safe now as a balloon in the hands of three five-year-olds. When it will be broken is merely a question of which of the three Varsity strong men rounds into shape quickest. Leading the triumvirate is Jack Fisher, a Senior and All-New England center for Dick Harlow last fall. The former Andover athlete who threw 168 feet...