Word: adamantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last year's individuals Captain Adam Foster advanced as far as the semi-finals before being beaten. In that 1947 series, Adam, elder brother of Henry and Hugh, turned in one of the better performances of the tournament when be eliminated the defending champion, MeGill's Pete Landry, in the quarter finals...
Last week Manhattan gallerygoers could see some of the irascible Italian's best work. Centered around the collection of his sketches and drawings belonging to the late Mrs. J. P. Morgan, the exhibit included some of the decorative drawings which influenced English Architect-Decorator Robert Adam. Sharp-eyed observers could see details familiar, in the work of Furniture Designers Chippendale and Sheraton, Potter Josiah Wedgwood. Tangled in some of his lush and complicated grotesques were prototypes of the obelisks, griffins and clawed pedestals which sat so heavily in French drawing rooms of the First Empire. In the towering fagades...
...tried to swallow with what happens when a normal person swallows. Because ordinary X-ray movies were too fast, the doctors slowed them down to 60 a second. They found out what they wanted to know: one reason their patient was choking was that he could not raise his Adam's apple. But how to get his swallowing mechanism working again...
...trouble in three monkeys by cutting the same nerves. Then they worked out an operation on the monkeys that allowed them to eat again in comfort. Ready for the real test, the doctors took part of a muscle from the patient's neck and sewed it to his Adam's apple. This muscle normally helps control the tongue. But it worked; the patient could raise his Adam's apple. It was the first such operation, say the three surgeons, that has ever been performed...
Friday brings "Blue Skies," where Bing Crosby sings, Joan Caulfield looks nice, and Fred Astaire dances. Ingrid Bergman in "Adam Had Four Sons" may save this bill a little...