Word: eben
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down from Canada 26 years ago marched a thick-wristed, heavyset golfer named George S. Lyon to make a bid for the U. S. amateur championship. He was stopped in the finals by Eben Byers, who died last spring of radium-water poisoning (TIME, April 11). That was the nearest Canada ever came to the title until last week when Charles Ross Somerville of London, Ont. emerged at the head of a field of 154 starters at Five Farms near Baltimore. After the first round of match play, Robert Tyre Jones Jr., an observer in a gallery...
...Next to his home in Eutaw Place, Baltimore, is his hospital for radiological work. Besides several books he has written about 500 technical papers having chiefly to do with gynecology and other abdominal subjects. In June his latest work will be published: Electrosurgery. With the collaboration of Dr. Grant Eben Ward, assistant in clinical surgery at Johns Hopkins, he is recording his long experience with the electric knife in operations dealing with the skin, nose, throat, chest, abdomen, genitourinary system, central nervous system...
...Eben MacBurney Byers, 51, popular Pittsburgh sportsman and ironmaster, fell out of an upper berth five years ago returning from a Yale-Harvard football game. He hurt his arm. His Pittsburgh physiotherapist, Dr. Charles Clinton Moyar, prescribed a patented drink called ''Radithor." It was distilled water containing traces of radium and mesothorium (another radioactive substance). The dope eased the arm pain, braced Byers up. He enthusiastically recommended it to friends, sent them cases of it, even gave some to one of his horses. Last week Eben Byers died in Manhattan of radium poisoning. His close friend Mrs. Mary F. Hill...
Here's Audacity! is boldly illustrated by Artist Eben Given...
...significant that the question of their respective stands on the liquor issue has been the outstanding one in the consideration of the various candidates in the Massachusetts senatorial election Whether Mr. Eben S. Draper's decision to withdraw his support from William Butler, Republican nominee, springs from political spite or not, it at least adds weight to the growing anti prohibition sentiment along the North Atlantic seaboard. In New York, former Attorney General Tuffle has been nominated by the Republicans to run for governor on a repeal platform, while Democratic Governor Roosevelt has finally felt that wet sentiment was more...