Word: corde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special specialty of Dr. Byron Polk Stookey, Manhattan surgeon who fortnight ago suggested that gasoline filling stations be equipped as first-aid stations for highway accidents (TIME, Nov. 9), is surgery of the brain and spinal cord. To Neurosurgeon Stookey has come many a case of paralysis rendered incurable by ignorant handling of the patient at the scene of the accident. Hoping to prevent such needless damage. Dr. Stookey this week issued new pictures (see cuts) and advice which first-aid manuals, including that of the Boy Scouts, lack...
...luncheon clubs and radio interviewers, he often sits up till 3 a. m. working out plays. When Bierman is creating, his wife and two sons creep quietly about the house. At practice, Bierman stands almost still, speaks in a low voice, nervously twirls a whistle attached to a black cord. He rarely blows the whistle but the cord wears out every ten days. His appearance is extraordinary. He has green eyes, a cleft chin and snow-white hair. He earns about $15,000 a year, drives a Chevrolet...
...sent out by Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey's Vice President Everit Jay Sadler, who arranged the cruise. Among those who could not or would not go were Henry Ford, Walter P. Chrysler, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Walter C. Teagle. Among those who could and did were Cord Corp.'s President Lucius B. Manning, TWA's President Jack Frye, De Soto Motor's President Byron C. Foy, Goodyear Tire & Rubber's President Paul W. Litchfeld, President Thomas N. McCarter of Public Service of New Jersey, Eastern Air Lines' General Manager Edward V. Rickenbacker...
Leaving victims of facial palsy to struggle within the coils of this expert dissension, the Eye, Ear & Throat specialists turned their attention to those perennially interesting individuals who talk with deep-throated belches. They have lost their vocal cords usually as result of cancer or accident. Dr. William Wallace Morrison of Manhattan, who has taught many to talk, presented some prize scholars who belong to the Lost Cord League, and explained his methods. The voiceless patient first learns to swallow air. This he does by relaxing his throat and gullet, and gulping. Quickly a big bubble of air accumulates...
With this spinal cord of a narrative to hold it together, Kit Brandon is less diffuse than Sherwood Anderson's earlier novels, and Kit's candid puzzlement lacks the somewhat forced naïveté that weakened Beyond Desire and Dark Laughter. Sometimes the author intrudes with speculations about machinery, forest conservation, unemployment, strikes, the TVA, but his interruptions are brief and often effective. "The reader should bear in mind," he says simply, in describing Kit's marriage, "that Kit Brandon was and is a real person, a living American woman. How much of her real story...