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...would be ready for an artificial leg within two months. Of course the other leg is the trouble, but he thought she would be able to walk in about a year's time. My brother hurt his/spine in some way which has caused his right leg to go thin; he is out of hospital but still attends the Out-Patients. My father got off pretty lightly with a cut head and bruised ribs and is quite well now. For myself I have got several scars to show I have had my share...
...south it was the same. The tardy Hungarians, though handsome and horsewise, were mechanically thin; and went slowly in Galicia. The Rumanians, though bewitched with the prospect of stealing something from Russia, were bothered by lack of real German support, were bewildered by Red parachutists in the Ploesti oil fields and in the border town of Jassy. Soviet fifth columnists in Jassy joined parachutists in giving the Rumanians two days of terror, which Iron Guardists finally answered with terror-by executing "500 Jewish Communists...
Responsible for dreaming up Latitude Zero is a thin, bespectacled wag named Ted Elton Sherdeman, whose wife, a veteran radio actress, assists him. Nobody is more amused by Latitude Zero than Ted Sherdeman. During rehearsals, which are gagged up to the limit by the cast, he sits amiably giggling at his delirious brain child. He is fond of such tricks as introducing a kind of Latin double-talk for his eerier characters. Sample: Fora consumatio est ramus malin rite confedo saluero. The show was put on a coast-to-coast hookup after 17 weeks on a local circuit...
...placing a Geiger counter, a device which measures radioactivity, over a part of the body where the tracer elements are suspected so that the metabolic ebb & flow of the tagged substance can thus be observed while the subject is alive. Or the detection can be accomplished by taking paper-thin slices of plant or animal tissue, placing them on a photographic plate, and letting them leave their own radio-autograph...
...within two-millionths of an inch, these blocks maintain the accuracy of micrometers and other gauges down to a ten-thousandth of an inch, thus make possible the interchangeability of parts, essence of mass production. Today, with production booming, the "Jo" blocks, always scarce, are spread as thin as management itself. Last week a lone machinist in a privy-sized Cleveland shop was easing the scarcity and making a lot of money...