Word: curling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the cadaver crisis was viewed with alarm by experts on both sides of the Atlantic: Dr. Neville Goodman of London, Anatomist Melvin Knisely of the University of Chicago, Dr. Howard Curl of the University of Tennessee. The shortage is even worse in Britain than in the U.S.; British students have been cut down from a prewar standard of 16 students per body to an average of 20 students. The most serious shortage, both in Britain and the U.S., is of female bodies (especially young ones), important for the training of obstetricians and gynecologists. At best, only about...
...growing acute even before the war. For dissection, modern medical schools have to depend almost entirely on derelict, unclaimed bodies. Wartime prosperity, a long-range decline in pauperism and the wider spread of Social Security payments (which include funeral expenses) have cut this source of supply. Said Dr. Curl last week: "Another four years and we may not have any cadavers for medical teaching...
...water got salt in it. Besides the cook there was a kid from Texas-he was only 18-who died from salt water. They would foam at the mouth, a kind of cream-colored foam, and their tongues would curl, and swell up in their mouths and their lips turn inside out. A gunner's mate died from injuries. Four others died of thirst: they just went out of their heads-they didn't drink salt water...
...tall and pale, with slender legs and a generous bust. Her long black hair had a natural curl. "She had no illusions, and was frankly infatuated with herself...
...Kuroki may have been the first person of Japanese descent to watch the Pacific surf curl on the beach at Santa Monica since the great evacuation of Japanese from California after Pearl Harbor. He was there last week, with several hundred other battle-weary U.S. airmen, resting in the luxury of the former Edgewater Beach Club, now an Air Forces redistribution center. Like his comrades, he slept late, guzzled orange juice and fresh milk, tried to unwind and get toned...