Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reconstituted Belgium the southern portions of Zeeland and Limburg provinces, which lie next to Belgium. This was averted not only by the Queen's dramatic tour of these provinces but also by the presence in Versailles of two South African statesmen of Boer origin, Generals Colin Graham Botha and Jan Christiaan Smuts. They remembered that it was Wilhelmina who in 1900 defied the British by sending a Dutch warship to pick up Boer Leader Paul Kruger and bring him to safety in Europe...
Over a glass of beer at the New York World's Fair last summer pretty Florence Mistele, 18, design student, and handsome Richard Graham, 20, actor, hatched a solution to the age-old problem of what to do with one glove after the other is lost. This week their patented answer went on sale at Manhattan's swank Mark Cross Co. (leather goods). It was a glove which looked like a hand's pattern jig-sawed out of a board. It is made by sewing an identical back and palm to a leather ribbon edge. Loose...
...Guild, the speediest man on the squad; Ross Whittier, an able assistant to Waldstein; Dave Glass, blocking back; and Doug Graham, substitute for McNicol, are the backfield reserves...
Four years later the happy Pittsburgh doctor attended a convention of the College of Surgeons. Late for a meeting, he raced up two flights of stairs with a couple of friends. To their amazement, said Dr. Graham last week, the only one not winded by the climb was the doctor with one lung. His healthy lung had expanded, had completely filled the hollow space in his chest cavity...
Since that first dramatic case, hundreds of lung amputations have been performed throughout the world, with great success. "In suitable cases," continued Dr. Graham, "where the cancer is not too far advanced, the operation can be done with a mortality of only ten percent. When the cancer is advanced, however, the mortality jumps to 40 or 50%. A very discouraging feature is that about 80% of those patients who come for operation are too far advanced to have a chance...