Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale team has been plagued by weak pitching--a handicap which must come as quite a shock to coach Ethan Allen after his recent successes with Ken MacKenzie and Ray Carlsen. Diminutive southpaw Pete Higuchi, who lasted only one inning against the Crimson last month, may get the starting call again today...
...large audience in New Lecture Hall responded enthusiastically to the call of chairman H. Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, Overseer, for a standing ovation for Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, emeritus...
...rest of the country was also experimenting at that time. From the Protestant countryside had come the call for prohibition, and so the nation tinkered with its way of life and established bootlegging as a going business...
...high blood pressure and heart disease that often accompany the businessman's strenuous pace, Dr. James N. Lynch, secretary of the Chicago Dental Society, last week added "executive mouth." Plenty of dental defects, said Dr. Lynch, are caused by "the same factors that contribute to what we call success in life." Hard-driving businessmen seeking release from stress clench their teeth, jut their jaws, grind their molars-both on the job and in their sleep. In cases of irregular bite, this leads to pyorrhea, which causes the bone around the tooth to dissolve. Result: the teeth loosen...
...smiling all the time, dangled the clasps at the end of the electrodes before my eyes. These were little shining steel clips, elongated and toothed, what telephone engineers call 'crocodile' clips. He attached one of them to the lobe of my right ear and the other to a finger on the same side. Suddenly, I leapt in my bonds and shouted with all my might. C- had just sent the first electric charge through my body. A flash of lightning exploded next to my ear and I felt my heart racing. I struggled, screaming, and stiffened myself until...