Word: handedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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As for Il Duce, he has performed the difficult feat of remaining neutral between those who want to stay neutral in the war and those who want to join Germany. Meanwhile, his power has noticeably waned. For one reason or another he handed over to the Prince of Piedmont the...
Died. Dr. Harvey Gushing, 70, world's No. 1 brain surgeon, author of Pulitzer-Prizewinning Life of Sir William Osler (1925), father-in-law of the President's eldest son, James Roosevelt; of a heart attack; in New Haven, Conn. Bright-eyed, white-haired Harvey Cushing's...
For maximum surgical success, hundreds of delicate precautions must be observed. A surgeon should make incisions with "a deliberate sweep of the scalpel." but "the belly of the scalpel should be swept across the tissues, not pressed into them." Sutures should be of silk "so fine that it - breaks when...
The German theme is the familiar one that Britain is an imperialistic aggressor, but the favorite targets have been Britain's inept Ministry of Information (see p. jp) and Winston Churchill. Berlin last week caught Britain red-handed in a BBC report of the torpedoing of the freighter Royal...
Before David is tossed skallyhooting out of his paradise and his ephemeral inheritance, some excellent war talk is heard from, among others, an aged and resigned Italian prince. None of it is more interesting than the implication of the book itself: that the pre-1914 ideals of scientific truth and...