Word: arvid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elsie May Keene went around to the office of Arvid Lovgren, complained to him of pains in her throat. Naturopath Lovgren took her blood pressure, told her that her heartbeat was too fast, promptly administered a "chiropractic adjustment" with a vibrator. "But how will that stop the pains in my throat?" she asked. Lovgren gave her pills, prescribed a diet, then fitted what he called an electrical heat-ray machine around her neck. It began to burn on the left side. He said that was where the infection was, but he treated the burn with Unguentine and charged only...
Died. Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby, 58, world-famed Swedish-born weatherman (TIME, Dec. 17), organizer (1927) of the U.S.'s first airway weather-reporting system, pioneer in modern air-mass-analysis forecasting techniques, discoverer of the "jet stream," founder of Stockholm's International Meteorological Institute; of a coronary thrombosis; in Stockholm...
...much as anyone to raise meteorology to its present high estate is a likable, high-spirited, round-faced Swede named Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby. Most leaders of modern meteorology are friends or past pupils of Dr. Rossby's. The "Rossby parameter" is important in up-to-date forecasting, and the grandest movements of the atmosphere are called the "Rossby waves." The history of modern meteorology is inescapably paralleled by Rossby's career...
Grays 41-42--Arvid...