Word: grice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miami by plane the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis packed off a special "polio team" headed by Dr. David Steven Grice of Harvard. With him were a Yale epidemiologist, Dr. Dorothy M. Horstmann, an orthopedic nurse and four physiotherapists. Three other "flying squads" of polio experts have been recruited at Northwestern, Stanford and the D. T. Watson School of Physiotherapy, to speed to the scene of any outbreak on two hours' notice...
...Miami, Dr. Grice, stripped to his white sleeveless jumper, was soon supervising in wards and teaching procedure in lecture halls. His team would stay five or six weeks, the physiotherapists longer if necessary. Treatment for the disease, whose mysteries remain largely unsolved: Sister Kenny's hot packs to relieve pain and muscle training to restore function; occasional non-specified drugs, plenty of rest...
...request of Colonel L. O. Grice of the QMC, a group of Harvard and Alpine Clubbers organized a joint testing expedition of static and mobile equipment. The Crimson Mountaineers had used photographs of Army Observers, have been landed by bombers, and have been parachuted food in their conquest of various mountains in Alaska...
...British task force under greying, athletic Admiral Edward Neville Syfret stood off the craggy north end of Madagascar. The landing force was under the command of a veteran of beachhead warfare: lean, aloof Major General Robert Grice Sturges of the Royal Marines, Officer in the "Jollies" since 1912, he had gone through the blistering hell of Gallipoli, had seen British Marines shot to pieces on Belgium's coast in World...
...prettiest exhibitions in Washington, Colonel Grice has arranged a company of dummies modeling all kinds of winter clothing. The Army, not yet as traveled as it expects to be, is still experimenting with what the efficient U.S. fighter may need to wear...