Word: allen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshman lineup--lw, Fletcher; c, Abbott; rw, Farrington; ld, Allen; rd, Key; g, Chase...
George Burns & Gracie Allen passed their 15th radio anniversary. George thought he knew why they have lasted so long: "People get smarter and so do we. . . . Every comedian usually thinks the whole world depends on each joke. . . . Actually the world doesn't give a damn [so] now we concentrate on overall effect. It makes us feel better and . . . you've got to be fluid in this business. You've got to get like jelly...
Captain Terry Van Ingen, who handles the net-minding duties, is now completing his third season as the Blue first-string goalie. From the defensive angle, he will be bulwarked by the starting combination of Walt Allen and Jack Calhoun, who are both former letter winners along will all but three of the fourteen regular game performers...
Certain organisms can stand intense cold; some survive temperatures of -272° Centigrade. Cold is a preservative and an anesthetic; it slows metabolism, kills pain, halts the spread of infection. Grossman & Allen found that when they packed a gangrenous leg in ice before amputation, reducing its skin temperature from the normal 90° to 40°, they needed no other anesthetic; the danger of death from shock was greatly reduced and the leg healed better and quicker. Sometimes the refrigeration technique, by allowing time for drugs and other treatments to take effect, even saved the leg from amputation...
Grossman & Allen suggest that refrigeration might even make it possible to restore an amputated arm or leg: "If a limb is fairly cleanly amputated, for example in a sawmill accident, there is a challenge to any nearby physician to pack such a part in ice and send it along with the patient to a hospital...