Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patch broken bones doctors use everything from rope to chromium nails. Last week in the Lancet, venerable Dr. Ernest William Hey Groves, emeritus professor of surgery at the University of Bristol, told how he had successfully used hunting trophies and soupbones as scaffolding for fractured arms and legs. Examples...
Died. Harold Cole Watkins, 58, chemist who in 1937 prepared the fatal formula containing sulfanilamide and diethylene glycol, labeled "Elixir Sulfanilamide," which killed at least 76 people; by his own hand (shooting); in Bristol, Tenn...
...Born at Bristol, Va., of a Vermont father and a French Canadian mother, Pinky Harrington graduated second in the class of 1909 at West Point, has since proved himself an able engineer and administrator. Outside his office, he is an ornament of social Washington. Inside his office hangs a quotation from George Washington: "Do not suffer your good nature, when application is made, to say yes when you ought...
...Richard's father was a shoemaker who wrote and published several volumes of verse. Born at Bristol in 1864, Richard left school at 12, became a newsboy, printer's devil, shoemaker's apprentice. He studied in his spare time, attracted the attention of Clifton College's headmaster who helped him get an education. He taught for a year, then became assistant to Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, the astronomer who discovered helium in the sun. In 1893 he joined Sir Norman on the staff of Nature, succeeded eventually to the editorial chair. As a final distinction...
When ointment containing male sex hormones is rubbed into the comb of a capon, the listless, bedraggled cock gradually turns into a lusty, strutting rooster. Reason; the hormones are absorbed into his bloodstream. When Dr. George L. Foss of the Royal Infirmary at Bristol, England learned that this direct application of hormones to a capon's comb is 200 times more effective than injections, he decided last summer to try it on impotent...