Word: cording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Left. By the late Playwright Sidney Coe Howard (They Knew What They Wanted, Yellowback, The Silver Cord): a net estate of $243,566; to his widow, Leopoldine, daughter of Walter Damrosch...
...margin of victory for the Blue was a practically unbeatable goalie named Cord Meyer. His impregnability in the nets more than made up for the Harvard superiority in the forward lines, and time and again he thwarted what looked like certain Crimson goals...
Last week a young man from Chipley, Ga. fell 17,000 feet through the Burma sky. His Curtiss P-40, shot out of control by a Jap, hurtled past him. At 7,000 feet he pulled his parachute cord. He saw another plane dart toward him, at first thought a Jap was trying to machine-gun him, then recognized a comrade from his squadron, convoying him to earth. The young man and his parachute plopped into a rice field. A Burmese farmer spewed mouthfuls of water on his bloody forehead. Others fed him, sped him back to his airdrome...
Until this discovery, doctors had to be satisfied with shadowy pictures of the brain made in complicated fashion: the spinal cord was tapped and all the fluid slowly drained out from the ventricles-five lakes in the center of the brain. Then air was blown up the cord or injected into the ventricles till they were filled with air and X-rays could be taken. Under this treatment patients have terrific headaches until new fluid seeps back into the brain...
Even before that, in the merger era, he had shown his financial toughness by sticking with (and successfully running) Republic while Dreamer Cyrus Eaton, who put it together, was washed out by the depression. Later he also joined the syndicate that salvaged the wrecks of another dreamer, Errett Lobban Cord, whose ill-assorted mass of properties included Vultee. Leader of that syndicate was Wall Street's Victor Emanuel, whose dreams have shown a much solider content than Eaton's or Cord's. Emanuel and Girdler together swung the Vultee-Consolidated deal...