Word: gerald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test was devised by the association's president, Dr. Charles B. Huggins, 47, Canadian-born surgeon who developed the "Huggins operation" (castration) for advanced cancer of the prostate. Working with him at the University of Chicago were Physician Gerald M. Miller and Organic Chemist Elwood V. Jensen. With scientific hedging, Dr. Huggins called it "for all practical purposes a simple, cheap and reasonably sure test for cancer." He added that his report pulled together work done by others since 1932, and he hoped that it would not be treated as "sensational." If later work backs up the first tests...
...Directions. Said Street & Smith President Gerald H. Smith: "They weren't making any money. We just weren't interested in them any longer." Neither was the public. From a wartime high of 4,250,000, the circulation of the two groups had plummeted to 700,000 a month. Changing times and tastes were to blame, said S. & S.; radio, television and the newsstand competition of the 25? reprint books had shrunk the market...
Students who go abroad this summer may be subject to unnecessary delay unless they are familiar with the customs regulations of each country they visit, Gerald J. Downing, Manager of the Foreign Department of the Harvard Trust, said yesterday...
When neighbors visited Mrs. Sullivan (she was popular in the neighborhood, and generous with what little she had), Gerald was locked in his room, empty but for a dirty Army cot; he had been taught not to utter a sound. Last week Anna Sullivan forgot to lock the door; he escaped while she was telephoning...
After the police took him in, Gerald's hair was shorn, he was dressed in boy's clothing, and sent away to a children's home. His mother was charged with neglect. Sobbing, she said: "I sinned and had to bear my cross." The fact was, Anna Sullivan had made a child bear her cross...