Word: corded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Lou Gehrig, 38, "Iron Man of Baseball"; in Manhattan. Stricken two years ago with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (hardening of the spinal cord), the great, clean-living, slugging Yankee first baseman, son of a German-born janitor, had hung up the all-round record of baseball: 2,130 consecutive games (for 14 years he played in every Yankee game); more than 100 runs a year; a lifetime batting average...
Noted Roentgenologist Cornelius Gysbert Dyke supervised X-rays as Pandora whiffed ether. Next day Pandora was brought back for more tests. The Institute's chief, Tracy Putnam, himself tapped Pandora's spinal cord, drew fluid for tests. On the electroencephalograph, which records brain impulses as clues to tumors or other disturbances, Pandora flopped: her too-thick skull thwarted doctors looking for variations in the alpha, beta and delta waves...
...theory: A person may harbor the poliomyelitis virus in his spinal cord without feeling more than a headache, stiff neck, sick stomach. If he lies down and takes care of himself, the disease may pass off without trouble. But if he plays ball, goes swimming or hiking, the virus may spread throughout huge numbers of spinalcord cells, causing paralysis...
...right words to describe Gletkin's special quality: "correct brutality." He had been a mere boy when the Revolution broke out. "That was the generation which had started to think after the flood. It had no traditions, and no memories. ... It was a generation born without umbilical cord...
...trio had been after at the N.Y.A.C. Room 1903 was one of a suite occupied by Frank Erickson, reputed to be New York's wealthiest bookmaker, said by Mayor LaGuardia to be a "bum." A zipper bag which the gunmen had left behind them held black masks, wire, cord, wads of cotton-elaborate paraphernalia for a holdup...