Word: allan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, 60, deliverer of the Dionne quintuplets; of pneumonia; in North Bay, Ont. At 4:30 a.m. on May 28, 1934, on his 1,400th maternity call, the short, bespectacled doctor stepped into an unpainted Ontario farm house, worked over Mrs. Dionne for an hour, baptized her five newborn girls against their anticipated deaths, then began to realize that he had made medical history. Son of a small-town doctor, he had nearly missed his M.D. at the University of Toronto in 1907, had treated the prolific French of the Callander region for 24 winters...
Abuse After Dark. Commander Smith had seen 500 neurotic marines at the Mare Island hospital, nearly all of them from Guadalcanal. "All of them in their composite story give a picture of physical and mental strain that combines the best of Edgar Allan Poe and Buck Rogers. One cannot help but believe that the enemy made a careful study of our psychology and our ways of thinking and living, and used this knowledge against us. . . . Most of us consider the night as a time for rest . . . the Japs centered their activities during this period. They were taught a few American...
...Radioman Allan T. Simmons' Blue Swords, a Man o' War grandson who has kept closest to Count Fleet's heels (but finished four lengths behind him in the Wood Memorial last week...
...test was designed by Educator Hugh Russell Fraser and two-time Pulitzer Prizeman Allan Nevins, Columbia University's Professor of history. Object: "to determine the amount of U.S. history that the high-school graduate retains from his secondary course." The question of what he retains from other courses, of what he would retain from a compulsory college course, went necessarily unanswered...
...yard high hurdles--Won by MacKinnon (H); second, Platt (R.I); third, Allan (R.I.). Times...