Word: bucher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among other music festivals in Europe this summer: One of the newest is Rouen's"Great Hours" (May 30-June11), centering on a famous short-time resident, Joan of Arc, and featuring Honegger's opera-oratorio, Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher (TIME, Jan. 12, 1948). Oldest festival of all is England's Three Choirs Festival, this year of Worcester (Sept. 5-10); it began about 1715 and has been going (with time out for wars) ever since. Using some 300 singers from Worcester, Gloucester and Hereford, the program is designed to satisfy British love of massed...
Audience Participation. In Toledo, ticketed for illegal parking. Motorist Thomas O. Bucher explained that he had become ill "watching the antics of a woman driver," stopped only long enough to buy some medicine...
Nancy L. R. Bucher, instructor in Medicine, outlined the new use for cholesterol which may provide a clue to understanding heart disease and cancer. Lewis W. Hill, clinical associate in Pediatrics, announced that cortisone, a substance produced by the adrenal glands, is proving effective in the treatment of asthma and eczema among young children...
...Bucher's experiments have demonstrated, for the first time, how blood cells produce cholesterol and how broken cells produce it more effectively. This may lead to the discovery of how cancer spreads through the body, and adds to present knowledge of how an excess of cholesterol in the blood vessels causes hardening of the arteries...
...addition to the dangers from the bigger fish, the hunters always take the risk of ruptured eardrums when they plunge deep below the surface. Bucher & Co. have learned the trade secret to guard against this crippling rupture: exhaling against the steel clips blocking their nostrils, they apply pressure to the middle ear to equalize it with the outside water pressure. Although doctors doubt it can be done, Bucher plans to attempt 148 ft. after returning from the underwater big game hunt. Bucher has his own reply to the medical men: "Even 164 ft. is not beyond human possibility...