Word: cordes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doctors who use spinal anesthesia freely got a sharp warning last week from Manhattan's famed Neurologist Foster Kennedy. Reporting, with two colleagues, on cases seen recently at Bellevue Hospital, Dr. Kennedy described several kinds of paralysis resulting from damage to the spinal cord during anesthesia...
...virus of poliomyelitis, one of the smallest disease-causing organisms, is less than a millionth of an inch long. Trying to follow this minute invader as it attacks the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord has long been a baffling problem for polio researchers. Last week two Yalemen, Drs. Joseph L. Melnick and John B. LeRoy, told how they had used the electron microscope to study this microcosmic warfare-with surprising results...
...single track tunnel, blasted out of solid rock, about a quarter of a mile long, curving slightly. Using shovels they had brought with them, they dug into the railroad bed. When their shovels rang too loudly they went down on their knees and finished digging with their hands. Primer cord connected two charges so they would explode as one, and caps were taped to both rails. Then word was passed to head back for the whaleboat...
...Miraculous Medal originated in Paris, where it was designed according to specifications which St. Catherine Laboure said were given to her by the Virgin Mary in an apparition on Nov. 27, 1830. When Joseph Skelly was a boy in Germantown his mother hung one of the medals on a cord around his neck, as she had with his seven brothers and three sisters. Many years later, when Father Skelly undertook the job of raising funds to build St. Joseph's College at Princeton, N.J., he slipped one of the medals into each letter asking for contributions. Impressed...
...three pairs of pants and two jackets are ample for ordinary use. After he has seen some thousands of American students sporting cord and berserks jackets and grey final trousers from London to Naples, the traveler who wears this uniform will wish he were a little less stereotyped...