Word: corded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Student members of the following committees are: treasurer, and rules committee, Frank Frazer 1PA; secretary, John Peasley 1PA; membership, George Delaney 1GB, George Cunningham '42, and Deborah Solbert, a Radcliffe student; publicity, John Goodbody 1G and Henry Shames 1L; national affairs, James Lanegan 3L; international affairs, Cord Meyer 1G--an original A.V.C. member--and George Hoffman 1G; and legislation, Charles Choate...
Burned Up. In Monroe, Wis., desk policeman Herb Bolliger 1) got a frantic call for the fire department; 2) threw the fire switch-which wouldn't work; 3) raced to the fire station and yanked a bell cord-which broke; 4) whirled to rush back to the police station siren, tripped over a rope coil; 5) switched on the siren; 6) answered the phone again, heard: ". . . fire under control...
Current Event. In Sedalia, Mo., a cow lost interest in her cud: experimentally bit an electric light cord, abruptly lost interest in everything...
...worst wounds is a severed spinal cord. If it does not kill him, it paralyzes a man below the injury, makes him helpless as a baby. World War II left the U.S. with some 2,000 such men. Doctors call them paraplegics; but they have less euphemistic names for themselves. At one time or another, nearly every paraplegic wishes he were dead...
...hard for many of them to believe that they can probably regain independence, of a sort. But Boston's Surgeon Donald Munro, who has seen it happen, is sure that they can. Says he: "If he is properly treated, every patient with a spinal cord injury who is intelligent and cooperative and has the use of the shoulder, arm and hand muscles can be made ambulatory . . . lead a normal social life and . . . earn a satisfactory living...