Word: grimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most controversial subject at the Cleveland meeting: sympathectomy-cutting the "sympathetic" nerves to reduce high blood pressure. Dr. Keith Grimson of Duke University, who sometimes cuts out the entire sympathetic nervous system, said that it helped in most of his cases and probably would be effective for a third of all hypertensive patients. Others thought that it seldom did much permanent good...
...Elis were put more completely behind the eight-ball with Wes Flint's spectacular double win in the two hurdle events, and the Grimson sweep of the shot. In fact, the Elis have fallen a long way from the days of Ernis Parshall, former Hill School athlete, who chalked up six first and a second for Yale in a Freshman meet...
...Lewis of Everett, Wash., Mrs. Wyman of Tacoma, and Mrs. Grimson of Seattle are all engaged hereabouts as masters of inland vessels. Mrs. Grimson is particularly noteworthy for her managership of freighting sternwheel steamers-the last of the once great Puget Sound fleet-after many years as skipper of same...