Word: givens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Treatments were given a week apart at first, then at longer intervals depending on the patient's response; average number given was less than three. All patients left the hospital without sign of rheumatic heart disease except mechanical damage that had already taken place in the heart; 20 have returned to normal activity; one died, from another disease, and one "gained immeasurably." The three doctors concluded that "UBI" (ultraviolet blood irradiation) is safe and may prove, after further tests, to be the best treatment available...
Since he has been conducting in Washington, Dick Bales's record for doing right by U.S. composers is rivaled only by his famous teacher, the Eastman School's Howard Hanson, and by the annual Columbia University festival. In all, Bales has given Washington some 500 American-composed works and the premières of about...
Said Ambassador Douglas, who is not given to overstatement: "He has been a better and more effective and persuading ambassador of good will from my country to yours than all . . . of officialdom...
...businessmen. They organized a syndicate to buy up the mortgage on Crowder's newspaper plant. When Crowder went to the bank with $800 in back payments, he learned that his mortgage had been sold for $8,500 to "my worst enemies." The syndicate, headed by Oilman E. D. Given, promptly slapped a judgment on Crowder's property, and the sheriff tried to seize the press...
William B. Given, president of the American Brake Shoe Company, told the alumni there is no shortage of young men who can be developed into executives in most large companies. Speaking on "Experience in the Development of Management People," he offered a yardstick by which management executives could be judged...