Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...founded Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins University, turned in his grave ten years ago when Johns Hopkins Hospital trustees asked the U. S. public for $4,550,000 for new buildings and $8,600,000 for additional endowment, then Johns Hopkins' bones must have had a conniption fit last week. For the trustees of Johns Hopkins Hospital were begging former patients to contribute $200,000 to prevent the financially strapped hospital from shutting a large number of its free wards and curtailing its free clinical services. The famed hospital, which takes medical care of 25% of Baltimore...
Most persons have seen one or more of the estimated 500,000 epileptics in the U. S. throw a fit. The fit may be mild and quick-a momentary rigidity during which the epileptic grows pallid and drops whatever is in his hands. Or the fit may be a grand mal, the epileptic uttering a loud shout and dropping like a log to the ground, face pale, eyes rolling, hands clenched, legs spread stiffly. After a few seconds, the epileptic's face goes dusky. He begins to jerk his arms, legs and body, roll his head, clamp his jaws...
Just before an epileptic has a fit, a "larval explosion" of large surges occurs through his brain, three every second, producing 100 to 300 millionths of a volt each. The wave pattern is large, slow and evenly curved but cut by sharp downward strokes which perhaps reflect convulsions in the brain. During the depths of the epileptic fit, the characteristic long slow curves assume an unbroken S-shape...
...Working like a beaver (his son estimates that he handles nearly 500 pounds of wet clay a day), he has been a recluse since the Armistice. Careful inspection showed that, however erratic the War memorial might be as a whole, most of the individual figures are fit to rank with the best work Sculptor Barnard has ever done. So were two of his newest works in last week's show: An eight-foot bearded Christ with muscular arms upraised in supplication (the model was a football coach); and a gigantic figure of Mother Earth and Child, eventually...
Last year Congress granted the Securities & Exchange Commission the power to hurl thunderbolts into almost any corporation it saw fit. Instead of exercising such an Olympian prerogative, as U. S. Business fearfully predicted, SEC has proved to be a tolerant and forbearing body. Last week for the first time SEC thundered in august wrath. Object: Baldwin Locomotive Works...