Word: everly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strangely enough, none of the women ever did better than 40 watts. This, said Dr. Ray, was due to the physical inability of women to store creatine, one of the bodily products from glycine. Whether glycine produced extra mental energy, Dr. Ray could...
...Gynecologist Thomas Stephen Cullen has taught every student who ever graduated from Johns Hopkins Medical School. Nearly as famous for his practical jokes as for his surgical exploits, Dr. Cullen has been known to list his occupation as "interior decorator," has upon occasion posed for anatomical illustrations in medical texts. Several years ago at ceremonies to install Dr. Roland Hill as president of the St. Louis Medical Society, a large box was presented to the guest of honor, after a long speech celebrating his accomplishments. Urged by his distinguished colleagues to open the box, Dr. Hill removed the lid, took...
...reporters last week journeyed to the docks to count cases of gold being unloaded from the Queen Mary. They counted 355 cases, thus estimated that the Queen brought in some $20,000,000. This was presently dwarfed by a shipment on the Manhattan estimated at $56,000,000, largest ever. At week's end four other liners were on the way from frightened Europe with $75,000,000 more to add to the $15,007,517,132.83 (57% of the world's monetary supply) in gold already admittedly in the U. S. Treasury's hands...
...fact is that S. F. Porter is a pretty, vivacious, prodigious young lady who was just 22 when she tweaked Secretary Morgenthau's dignity nearly four years ago. Sensitive about her age ever since Cornell refused her a scholarship because she was only 16. Sylvia Field Porter graduated from Hunter College and talked her way into a job with an investment counsel firm in the desolate year of 1932. In 1935 she went to work as a financial writer for the New Dealish New York evening Post and when the struggling Post last year had to cut expenses...
...organ and began a service consisting of a hymn, ten Bible verses, a short but earnest homily. The homily was delivered by stout, expansive, 39-year-old John Marvin Yost, the bank's vice president, cashier, trust officer and secretary. Sample sentiment: "Pikeville is the grandest town that ever was." At 9 sharp, John Yost and his 14 fellow employes were at their posts and "the best and soundest bank in Kentucky" -50 years old last week-was open for business as usual...