Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those small currents kill by causing ventricular fibrillation. Normally the fibres of the muscle of the heart contract and relax in perfect rhythm, like a complex machine whose parts are all working in unison. In fibrillation the muscle fibres start to flutter independently of each other, thus stopping the heart's organized pulsations. This condition in electric shock, according to Mr. Ferris, "results from an abnormal stimulation rather than from damage to the heart. In the fibrillating condition, the heart seems to quiver rather than to beat; no heart sounds can be heard with a stethoscope; the pumping action...
...woman ever to receive a trainer's license from The Jockey Club (TIME, April 15, 1935). "Miss Mary" was absent from Louisville last week because her own charges were running at Jamaica, L. I. But to ride her-father's Derby entry, Bold Venture, she sent her contract apprentice jockey whom she herself had trained, tiny 18-year-old Ira ("Babe") Hanford. Four days before, at Jamaica, Jockey Hanford had brought Trainer Mary Hirsch her first double vic tory.* This time, in his first appearance in a major race, he was determined to bring Trainer Max Hirsch...
...Puffle in daily papers June 15. Major Hoople has been drawn by N. E. A. staff men since March 15. This has left Gene Ahern nothing to do but play and admire the art collection in his Hollywood home until June i, expiration date of his N. E. A. contract. Only clue to Judge Puffle's possible appearance was the 30-foot silhouette of a pinguid, plug-hatted figure, not unlike Major Hoople in outline, which loomed above the orchestra and the heads of 20 blonde hostesses and Official Greeters James J. Braddock & Fifi D'Orsay at King...
Edward VIII's huge properties as Britain's King were last week pouring income into the British Treasury at the rate of some $6,500,000 a year. Out of this fund the British Government annually pays its King and his family a set sum, under a contract first made by insane George III and regularly renewed by Act of Parliament. Last week the new Civil List for King Edward was submitted to the House of Commons. Smaller than that of his father by $300,000, it totaled only $2,050,000, leaving the Government...
...aces in the hole. One is the King's regular Duchy of Lancaster with an income of $425,000 a year. The other is the Prince of Wales's Duchy of Cornwall, which nets some $330,000 a year. Both are exempt from the Civil List contract with the Government, pay their money directly to His Majesty's Keeper of the Privy Purse. It is from these, rather than from the Civil List, that His Majesty will draw his spending money...