Word: cos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with an American Round (90 arrows at distances of 60, 50, and 40 yd.) of 698. surpassing his own world's record of 673 and including 15 bull's-eyes in a row at 40 yd. Second to Champion Hoogerhyde was Andrew L. Brush, a professional of Cos Cob, Conn, who scored...
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...goes back to man's earliest thought. The Babylonians had no doctors as such. Nor for a long time did the Egyptians. And it was a long time before some of the priests of Aesculapius set up a separate medical guild outside the temple walls on the Island of Cos, and a longer time before the guild admitted laymen. Hippocrates (400-359 B. C.) was the Father of Medicine. His medicine was pragmatic, had nothing to do with theology...
...fierce jerks of his little head. Musical cranks at last week's debut performance complained that the substance of the songs was sacrificed to the manner of singing, that too many tricks made for monotony. But no such attitude was reflected in the box office returns. The Cos sacks gave performances in Greenwich (Conn.), Philadelphia, Montclair (N. J.), & Richmond, three more Manhattan ones, then started their tour.* Individual artists rarely perform more than three times a week. The Don Cossacks will sing practically every night until they sail back to Europe in mid-December...
...author, a barrister and an educator have run a close race for Longest Paragraph in Who's Who. In 1928 Barrister Samuel Untermyer with his train of legal cases (viz., "successfully carried through the merger of the Utah Copper Co., with the Boston Consolidated and the Nev. Con. Cos., representing a market value of $100,000,000, for which was paid a lawyer's fee of $750,000;") held a narrow lead with 99 lines. Two thin lines behind, bolstered by 29 academic degrees and memberships in 86 associations, boards, clubs, colleges, congresses, leagues, societies, orders, ran Educator Nicholas Murray...