Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important point in Major Ascroft's paper: "We believe it is better not to operate in forward areas [on patients with head wounds], provided that the patient can reach a fully equipped base hospital within 48 to 72 hours of injury." This agrees with the late, great Dr. Harvey Cushing's World War I finding that "incomplete operations were more dangerous than a few more hours of delay." But Major Ascroft points out that "in this war most casualties have not reached a base hospital under 48 hours or more...
Vulgar, Obscene, Promotional. Mrs. Harvey Wiley, chairman of the legislative committee of the General Federation of Women's Clubs (representing 2,500,000 women), thought Esquire's Varga Girl drawings "obscene," was shocked by a picture of a modern bathing beauty. Shown a 30-year-old photograph of onetime swimming champion Annette Kellerman and asked if she thought it, too, was indecent, she cagily declined to commit herself except to say she had always admired Miss Kellerman as "a great exponent of health...
Fred Gurley will be the main loss of the track men when they go to the meet, but Jaako Mikkola is depending on John Bayliss, Dick Bryan, Joe Crowley, Harvey Waldon, Dick Jones, Archie Lyons, Fred Pierce, and John Shillite to scalp the strong Indian team...
...School, which does not depend on draft-age students, was booming despite the war, hoped to exceed its 1936 record of 4,034 registrants. The school had come a long way from its small, but distinguished, beginnings. Among the founders in 1919 was no less a quartet than James Harvey Robinson, Thorstein Veblen, Charles Austin Beard and John Dewey. To get the academic dust out of their lungs they set up their own school in a musty Victorian house in New York's Chelsea district. In 1922 Johnson took over the institution...
Repeal put Childs back into the money - but not before Founder William had almost ruined it. Distraught by his brother Samuel's death (in 1925) and by financial troubles, William took the cure at Battle Creek, Mich. There Dr. John Harvey Kellogg sold him on 1) a vegetarian diet, 2) the evils of drinking water at mealtime, 3) the evils of tobacco at any time. William tried to sell Childs customers on a similar Spartan bill of fare. General sales resistance finally roused hungry Childs stockholders to push him out of the company in 1929. Nine years later...