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Douglas noted that this was precisely the policy urged by Great Britain. "This comparison may shock our British friends," said he. "It is nevertheless true that their reluctance to back us up in the Far East is very similar to Mr. Hoover's reluctance to back them up in Europe...
...upset is caused by interruption of the normally smooth speaking process. The subject's brain expects to hear each syllable just after it is pronounced. When it hears the preceding syllable instead, it becomes confused. The brain begins to oscillate (like the zigzagging ship), and the shock echoes through the entire nervous system...
...Stoughton 4 suffered a compound fracture and laceration of the upper arm with profuse bleeding. The fellows of both teams immediately succored their injured companion. They applied pressure upon the arm pressure point, improvised a crude tourniquet, attempted to make Paul comfortable, and to alleviate and treat his shock. All this with their limited Knowledge of first aid. This is as it should be. But all this without any first aid equipment: no tourniquets, no blankets, no splints, no gauze, no bandages. This is as it should not be. But this lack of first aid equipment...
...himself. "It is necessary to work parallel with nature-according to our personal temperaments," Sutherland writes. "We are deceived if we work contrary to our inclinations or to nature . . . If I have felt that I must paraphrase what I see, it is because to do so gives me a shock of surprise-a new valuation of things." That might explain why Sutherland begins with careful drawings of what he sees, and ends with forceful and surprising near-abstractions...
Spider & Snake. By stimulating the adrenal glands during a crisis, the hormone injections serve to forestall most of the early complications (shock, pain, fever, infection, impairment of kidney function, loss of body fluids) which make burns most dangerous. As the cure progresses, the increased glandular activity helps still further by sustaining appetite and promoting new skin growth. Since burns heal in a relatively short time, the burn victim need not worry about the bad side effects (excessive hair growth, face swelling, skin streaking, etc.) that often follow long-sustained dosages of the drug...