Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soundproof room that Westinghouse researchers call the "trick parlor," a knot of newshawks waited. The "trick parlor' is in the East Pittsburgh laboratories of Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. On demonstration day last week it was pitch dark. Scheduled performer was Westinghouse's versatile "Ignitron" tube, invented by Drs. Joseph Slepian, 44, and Leon Robert Ludwig...
...explosion seared the fellow's lips and fingers, scorched his mustache. Such an unseemly performance in public caused him to seek medical attention and eventually to reach the hands of Dr. Charles Frederick Terrence East, one of the most ambitious as well as one of the most inquisitive of famed Harley Street's specialists...
...East investigated. He found that a scar of an old ulcer partly blocked the passageway from his patient's stomach into his intestines. This stricture caused food to remain unduly long in the stomach. The food fermented and formed, along with non-inflammable carbon dioxide, highly inflammable methane (which miners know as fire damp and farmers as marsh gas) and inflammable hydrogen disulfide, the gas which makes rotten eggs smell as they...
...mouth washes in the world could not have made Dr. East's patient socially acceptable. Dr. East cured him by having the stricture which was causing the trouble...
...reporting this rare case to the Lancet, Dr. East was moved to embellish his article with the following quotation from dyspeptic Alexander Pope...