Word: drinker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inventor Macneil was not the only one playing last week with infra-red rays. At Schenectady, General Electric Co. installed in its main office an infra-red drinking fountain. When a drinker lowers his head over the fountain he intercepts the rays and a stream of water is turned on. Drinkers were at first too awed to drink...
Mail addressed in the past few months "To the Gamest Kid in America" has found its way directly to Clarence Hastings, City Hospital, Syracuse, N. Y. He was 14 and a hero, having lived in a Drinker respirator one day longer than anyone else. His runner-up was Birdsall Sweet, also 14, of Beacon, N. Y. The infantile paralysis epidemic of last summer and autumn (TIME, Feb. 15, et ante) had put them in respirators, big sheet steel cans which made a bellows of their listless lungs, pumped air into them (TIME, Sept. 8, 1930; Sept. 21). Stories of Clarence...
...medals, carrying with them an award of $1000, were presented to Philip Drinker and L. A. Shaw '09 of the Harvard School of Public Health, at a meeting of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia last Wednesday night...
...year and a half ago a strange affliction appeared, first in the Midwest, then in every part of the country. People found their feet, hands, necks becoming paralyzed. Victims, their consciences uneasy, called the palsy "Jake paralysis." Medical research confirmed their suspicions. Everyone afflicted was a drinker of Jamaica ginger, as an intoxicant or a medicine (TIME, March 24, 1930). Followed a frenzied search by the Government for the specific cause. Chemists eventually revealed the poison as the phosphoric acid ester of tricresol. Its inclusion in the beverage was a manufacturers' accident. Manufacturers were indicted (TIME, July...
...speak on "The Life of a Professor." The presentation to the medical school of the portrait of Dr. Cannon will then take place. Members of the committee in charge are: Dr. Henry A. Christian, chairnfan, Dr. Harvey Cushing. Dr. Alexander Forbes, Dr. Alfred C. Redfield and Dr. Cecil K. Drinker...