Word: beeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Akron Times-Press means the dissolution of the third link in the Scripps-Howard chain in recent months. Six weeks ago, the ailing Buffalo Times was turned over to a local group headed by Editor George Lyon and Business Manager Earl L. Gaines. Month ago, the Toledo News-Bee, because of "greatly increased production costs," suspended publication, left the Toledo field to Paul Block's powerful evening Blade and unimportant morning Times...
...years ago, as Svend Hansen, 40, clipped hedges in an Irvington, N. Y. garden, he was stung on the leg by a bee, fell unconscious. Twelve hours later, Hansen was revived by adrenalin and artificial respiration. Last week, as he worked in the garden, he was stung on the neck by a bee. In 15 minutes Svend Hansen was dead...
Death from a bee sting is not rare. In 1936, some 20 people in New England alone were stung, developed anaphylactic shock, died. Anaphylaxis is the opposite of immunity, results occasionally when a minute injection of some foreign protein, such as bee sting, makes the system extraordinarily susceptible to further injections of the same protein (TIME, Aug. 31, 1936). Nobody knows exactly how bee sting works except that it may either kill or cure...
Medieval doctors used bee stings for arthritis, reasoning that the pain would make patients forget their aching joints. Modern doctors put the bee on patients more scientifically, first anesthetizing an arthritic joint with ethyl chloride, then applying artificial stings. Seventy-three out of 100 cases in New York Hospital were improved, said Dr. Jacques Kroner and associates in Current Medical Digest last month. Most of the cases showing no improvement were of long standing...
Information Please (Tues. 8:30 p.m., NBC-Blue). Critic Clifton Fadiman leads his corps of experts through radio's merry and most scholarly question-and-answer bee. The experts: Newspaper Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams, Sportswriter John Kieran, Novelist Alice Duer Miller...