Word: breasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Memorial, as elsewhere, surgery, radium and X rays are still the basic, most successful treatments. Some 90% of Memorial's patients are operated on (the hospital's "fiveyear cure" rate for stomach cancer: 25%). But Memorial is also pioneering in hormones for breast and prostate cancers, radioactive iodine for thyroid cancers, nitrogen mustards for Hodgkin's disease, radioactive phosphorus for certain forms of leukemia, a urine test for early cancer detection, studies of an extract of the adrenal gland, which looks like a hopeful candidate against stomach cancer...
Appalled by his parents' Scotch-Irish Presbyterianism, he soaked up the religious mysticism of Emanuel Sweden-borg.-Believing that God was within man, he was scornful. of the traditional figure of Jehovah: "Any mother who suckles her babe upon her own breast, any bitch in fact who litters her periodical brood of pups, presents to my imagination a vastly nearer and sweeter Divine charm. . . . Against this lurid power-half-pedagogue, half-policeman, but wholly imbecile in both aspects-I . . . raise my gleeful fist, I lift my scornful foot." This kind of "elegant Billingsgate," as his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...freshmen have to wear funny green porkies and then they have a crazy fight with the sophomores, and if the freshmen win, they don't have to wear the little hats any more. But the freshmen had tough luck this year. They lost to the sophomores. Seniors wear single breasted green coats with their class numbers sewn over the breast. The whole outfit looks something like the band at the New Ritz uses...
...captain Watkins took second in the 100-yard freestyle, and Woods, who broke two records when the Freshmen topped Yale, followed in Dave Murray, former Crimson backstroke, in the 150-yard backstroke. In the same meet Chuck Hoeizer, in repitition of many an occasion last winter, led the breast-strokers to the tape...
...Leach and Guy F. Robbins of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital questioned some 50 cancer patients. They found that 28%, when they first went to a doctor, had not had their ailment diagnosed correctly. The investigators were shocked to learn, furthermore, that half of the women patients with breast tumors were advised by their doctors to ignore the tumor "if it doesn't bother...