Word: drinker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cocil K. Drinker, professor of Physiology and Dean of the Faculty of Public Health, together with his brother Philip, professor of Industrial Hygient, were the first to put the idea of an iron lung across to the public. Due to their efforts 11 years ago, physicians have been able to save an incalculable number of cases of infantile paralysis, electric shock, gas of drug poisoning, acute alcoholism, and drowning...
...think tea is a sissy drink at all. It really depends on the drinker;" answered Nicholas Mellen '39, Varsity football guard, to a query on the Virtues and vices of tea-drinking. The questionnaire is part of a nation-wide survey of college athletes concerning the stimuli of various beverages...
...Scientific Allies of Medicine" will be the subject of President Conant's speech. Dr. Arlie V. Bock head of the Hygiene Department and Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, will talk on "Your Health and Mine"; Cecil K. Drinker, professor of Physiology and Dean of the School of Public Health, has chosen as his subject "Death on Monday Morning, or Man-Made Disease," and Hans Zinsser, Charles Wilder Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, will discuss "Laboratories and Epidemics." After these talks the subject will be thrown open to debate and questions will be invited from the floor, with President Conant...
When concentration of alcohol in the blood is below 0.5 milligram per cubic centimeter (achieved by the highball, Martini or three beers), even the most sensitive drinker displays no ill effects. Above a concentration of 1.5 mgms. every one is drunk. Between these rates lie in dividual variations of sullenness, hilarity, recklessness and melancholy. Hence, Dr. Haggard proposed that police set a stand ard of 0.5 mgm. as the "arbitrary dividing line between sobriety and an appreciable influence of liquor...
...twelve judges (whose superiors could have quashed the charges before the trial began) evidently concluded that Colonel Giffin was a drinker but not a drunkard, set him back from No. 611 to 711 in the current list of 962 lieutenant colonels, left him in the army, eligible for his pension next year. Said Colonel Giffin: "It is a distinct moral victory. . . . I do not feel any animosity toward Lieut. Smith. He just followed his natural instincts." Shortly afterward, another reservist in Manhattan exercised the privileges of any citizen, filed a report asking whether Lieut. Smith should be dismissed...