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...Jackson, while not the first man to peer down the trachea and esophagus, perfected the circus sword-swallower's technique of throwing back the head so far that mouth, throat and windpipe or gullet form a straight channel through which a straight metal tube can be slipped. The tube which penetrates the windpipe to the lungs is called a bronchoscope. A slightly larger metal tube which goes into the gullet is Dr. Jackson's esophagoscope. At the tip of esophagoscope and bronchoscope is a small electric light by whose illumination the bronchoscopist can see any foreign body...
...destiny of Ethiopia has been sealed today, May 9 of the 14th year of the Fascist revolution. All knots have been cut by our flaming sword and the victory in Africa becomes part of the history of our country, pure and complete...
First foreigner from the capital to see the advance of Italy's troops on Addis Ababa was United Pressman Ben Ames. Slashed by a sword in the native riots fortnight ago, he and a companion were able to slip out of town before dawn in a mud-bespattered truck. Just outside the city gates a scouting plane came rocketing down from the sky. Frantically they waved white towels and a large U. S. flag, were signaled on by a wave of the aviator's hand. Thirty miles farther on roaring motorcycles and staff cars popped...
...Tattooing is "related to narcissism, exhibitionism, inspectionism and skin-eroticism; to inversion, masochism, sadism, mutilations and sword-swallowing." -Dr. Frances Joseph Gerty, Chicago...
...national tournament of an intricate electric gadget, perfected by Fencer Alessandroni, which automatically records every touch. At the tip of each epee is a special plunger which, when it touches an opponent's body, is depressed, thereby closing an electric circuit. A double wire runs down the sword, up the performer's sleeve, down to his belt and along the strip to a reel, which gives the wire enough play for the fencer's movements, and thence to a control box. One-tenth of a second after a touch closes the circuit, a bell tinkles...