Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charges for the use of the operating room. . . ." Passionately retorted Director Warren Pearl Morrill of the Maine General Hospital, Portland: "If some surgeons would forego the pomp and circumstances demanded for their regal round of the wards, A remarkable scene was enacted by one Herman Schulenberg, 53, Milwaukee mechanic. Four years ago his cancerous larynx was removed. Last week Joseph Clark Beck, his Chicago surgeon, led him before the Fellows. First the man rasped in a monotone. Then he began to finger his throat, and inflected words ensued: "After I lost my voice I could not bear...
Last week's program-Beethoven, Brahms, Ravel, Wagner-was the first of some 80 for grownups. The children's series will be expanded this year, will be given in coöperation with a four-year course in appreciation in Chicago public high schools. In Cleveland, Nikolai Sokolov's orchestra began its twelfth season, presumably the last before it moves into the new hall provided by the $6,000,000 endowment fund raised last spring (TIME, May 6). Feature of the opening concert was the première of Werner Janssen's New Year...
...asked Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams to send a survey ship to check his calculations. He was right. The survey showed a little plateau just 400 miles from Manhattan and 375 miles from Bermuda, in an almost direct line. It is six miles long by four miles wide and only two miles below sea level, whereas the surrounding ocean is three to four miles deep. The difference in depth means thousands of dollars of savings to Mr. Armstrong and his financiers on the 3½ inch steel cable he is having laid to hold his floating island...
...third, six more Governors ("Little Six") each selected by one of the "Big Six" from his own country as a representative of local business, industry; fourth, it is envisioned that additional countries may obtain a share in the Bank's capital and each of these may submit four nominees for Governorship from which the Board will choose two Governors...
...standard Ford is a relatively "big car" to Germany with its four-horsepower Opel, to Britain with its 7.8-horsepower Austen, to France with its five-horsepower Peugeot and Citroen...