Word: heale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ready to go forth to heal society. For that job he became managing editor of The Nation. Chairman Medill McCormick of a Senate committee investigating U. S. occupation of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, sent him to those countries to look into condi tions. Thereafter Dr. Gruening became a bitter critic of U. S. policy in Latin America, a champion of all the little nations on whose soil and soul the U. S. had stepped. In 1924 he publicized the presidential candidacy of the venerable Robert La Follette Sr., helped to throw a "Red Scare" into the U. S. electorate...
...Widener's Peace Chance, winner of the Belmont Stakes. These horses have not met since the Kentucky Derby. Last fortnight Peace Chance was withdrawn because of a wrenched knee. Last week Cavalcade was disappointingly scratched also, when his trainer decided a bruise on his right front foot would not heal in time to permit him to run. This left the race open to such candidates as Morton L. Schwartz's Observant and Cornelius Vanderbilt (''Sonny") Whitney's Roustabout...
Benjamin Hendrick is now 7. When he was two his back began to stiffen. Next year one leg got stiff, making him limp a little, and he grew awkward with his hands. Whenever he cut himself it took a long time for the wound to heal. By the time he got to school, in small Larksville, Pa., he could hardly use his arms at all and his teacher had to help him on with his coat and rubbers. For a while he was sent to a clinic for crippled children, until doctors discovered what was wrong with him. Then they...
...appearance in The Lake, is an unsatisfactory sequel to Little Women. It exhibits her as a West Virginia cabin waif named Trigger, part tomboy and part prophetess. She has a pack of Sunday School cards. Her implicit faith in their texts not only enables her, amid blubbering prayers, to heal her neighbors with hookworm, but also causes her beneficiaries to regard her as a witch. When not engaged in faith-healing, little Trigger throws stones at her acquaintances, abuses an idiot girl friend, steals a sick baby, falls in love successively with two construction engineers...
...cases where the bladder is diseased. Dr. Coffey also described his system of "surgical quarantine." When he operates on a diseased abdomen he blocks off healthy organs with sheets of rubber and packs cotton wicks into the hollows left by organs removed. As the patient's insides heal and connective tissues fill in the cavities, Dr. Coffey hauls out the wicks one by one. His method helps insure against peritonitis. Appendicitis. Mortality from appendicitis is 50% higher today than it was 15 years ago, deplored Professor Alton Ochsner of New Orleans. One person dies in the U. S. every...