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Washington's first shock, at the nature of Mr. Childs's findings, was succeeded by its second, as to how he had made them. Court dignity as well as obvious conventions naturally prohibit members from gossiping about each other to the press. Nonetheless, Mr. Childs is such a good friend of Justice Harlan F. Stone that by last week he and Justice Stone's office both felt called upon to deny that Mr. Stone had been Mr. Childs's chief source of information. By this time Scripps Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper had written a column corroborating...
Almost a week has passed since the Class of 1941 received the annual shock of fining a large proportion of its members refused admittance to House. Houses, which the University claims, should play the integral role in a Harvard undergraduate's life. Yet, as in previous years, not a thing has been done...
...quickly the large rooms filled with dense, choking vapors. There was a horrified silence; then an impotent, gesticulating circle formed around a stiff figure with eyes wrinkled shut in agony, with face glistening from chemicals which had geysered up. The stricken one uttered low, meaningless cries,--obviously it was shock...
...though many farmers use two, or even three, for small animals. Two or three feet above the ground, the wires are connected with the no-volt electric supply line or to a 6-volt battery through a controller which governs the voltage and current so that the fence will shock livestock without injury. A survey Idaho took two years ago showed that the State's farmers are turning more & more to electric fences, are finding new uses for them. Among them: 1) to stop hogs from rooting under woven-wire fences; 2) to prevent animals from raiding chicken houses...
...morphine which Dr. Wassermann injected into helpless Marion Garey was less to deaden pain, which the man no longer felt, than to prevent him from collapsing from shock. After giving the morphine, the doctor applied a tourniquet, cut through the flesh of the broken leg, applying hemostats to the blood vessels he severed. He had no need to saw the bones; they were broken through. Twelve minutes after the morphine injection...