Word: elgin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Muscle Repair. Last week, in two papers read in St. Thomas, Ont. before the St. Thomas and East Elgin Medical Society, Dr. Vogelsang made the first public announcement of the new treatment. With his coauthors, Drs. Evan and Wilfred Shute, he gave full credit to Floyd Skelton for "crowning the research with final success...
...used the Aldwych station in London's Underground (subway) to hide from German bombs had classical company. Workmen last week began removing some $16,000,000 worth of ancient heroes & heroines from an offshoot of the Underground station. The ancients were the British Museum's famed Elgin Marbles, plucked from the Parthenon (in 1801) by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin...
...private collectors-including 17 19th-Century paintings from King George's collection-the exhibition covered Greek art from an onion-smooth, onion-shaped head, carved about 3000 B.C., to a painting of Greek resistance fighters of World War II. The Royal Academy show did not compare with the Elgin marbles in the British Museum, but it seemed a wonderful enough world of happy, half-naked, carefree athletes to give most visitors "a feeling of serenity...
...same hour, the same thing happened elsewhere in the capital. Not all the raids went off as planned. At a third-floor apartment on Ottawa's Elgin Street, four Mounties almost failed to get their man. When they entered, they were thumped by the awakened tenant, who thought he was being robbed. The man they really wanted was asleep next door. There were raids elsewhere in Canada too-reportedly in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton. By week's end at least a score of men were "detained." One Canadian was reportedly picked up in London...
From deep in the central U.S. a puckish zephyr danced northward, trailing an unseasonable perfume of spring across the central and maritime provinces. Dandelions bloomed in Hamilton. Three tulips popped up outside Fort Erie's police station; Elgin County farmers got in some early plowing; a Proton farmer tapped some maple trees, found the sap running. At Goderich the courthouse lawn had to be trimmed. Bees and mosquitoes began buzzing around Dundalk. A flock of blackbirds chirped near Truro...