Word: beds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Society for the Control of Cancer is doing admirable propaganda work. The Crocker Cancer Re-search Fund of Columbia University, under Dr. Francis Carter Wood, the cancer research conducted by Harvard, Cornell and New York University Medical Schools, all show promising results. A new cancer institute, comprising a 200-bed hospital on Blackwell's Island, and a large clinic, has just been established by the Departments of Public Welfare and Health of New York City...
...been sinking slowly until, a few weeks ago, physicians considered that the end would be only a matter of time. Refusing to let his weakened condition interfere with the few classes which he still had on his schedule, he spend a portion of the last few days teaching from bed, keeping his engagements up to noon yesterday. It is thought that the unusually hot weather of the past week was largely responsible for the suddenness of his collapse...
...daily program for the Red Top squad follows: Breakfast 7.30 Examinations 8.30-11.30 Morning row 11.45 Lunch 1.30 Tea 4.00 Afternoon row 6.00 Supper 7.30 Bed...
Next in the air but on a bed of sickness Major Thomas Scott Baldwin died in Buffalo at the age of 69. Long associated with aeronautics, " Cap " Baldwin was the originator of the parachute and was the first man to dare descend in one-in San Francisco in 1885. For many years he flew and manufactured balloons, dirigibles and planes. In 1893 he operated at the World's Fair in Chicago the first balloons owned by the United States Army. During the war he was Chief of the Army Balloon Inspection Service...
...seen. There was limitless life to it. Characters, regardless of importance, had individual "business" to do. The scenes that remain indelibly on the mind after seeing "The Lower Depths" were the one in which Luka hid to hear the discussion between Vassilisa and Pepel. Luka's praying by the bed of Anna, and the amazing beginning of the fourth act when there are three groups on the stage playing games and singing, and there is life and vitality and beauty in each one of the groups...