Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hagerstown, Md., Mrs. Findlay's mother found a young Union captain wounded in the throat, took him indoors to be cared for. Mrs. Findlay, then a girl of ten, was leaning over the officer's bed when he recovered consciousness. She helped nurse him back to health. The captain was the late Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. It was at the little girl's house that Poet Oliver Wendell Holmes found his son after the search described in his famed My Hunt after the Captain. As a Supreme Court Justice he often visited Mrs. Findlay, said...
...mounted over Peru during the total eclipse of last June (TIME, June 14) and from it Major Albert W. Stevens, stratosphere balloonist, made unusual photographs of the eclipsed sun which he showed last week at Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium, after they had been given a scientific bill of health by a conference of 50 astronomers at Harvard. The pictures showed a vast, globular corona reaching out from the sun to a depth about equal to its diameter (864,100 miles) in which the vivid coronal streamers commonly pictured formed a bright, irregular core. The globular corona had been photographed...
...time Senator Bone's bill and companion bills sponsored by Representatives Bulwinkle of North Carolina and Maverick of Texas came up for public hearings. Half the cancer specialists of the country, persuaded by Dr. Lewis Ryers Thompson, assistant surgeon general of the U. S. Public Health Service, appeared to testify. Franklin Roosevelt, sitting in his office, last week squiggled his signature and the Bone-Bulwinkle Bill became...
...gives the National Institute of Health, which Dr. Thompson heads, $750,000 to build a laboratory in which the many-sided cancer problem may be studied, and $700,000 for a year's expenses. Gloated Dr. Thompson: "This is the equivalent of the income from...
...Thompson has another $1,463,000 which Congress, directly or indirectly, has already given the Public Health Service to start moving the National Institute of Health to Bethesda, Md. As soon as buildings are ready Dr. Thompson will move his staff of 650. He no longer does research himself. "I sort of keep an eye on my boys, and help to get the money which enables them to keep going." But he still gets into his old "lab" clothes weekends-to tend the zinnias, phlox and anemones around his home at Chevy Chase. Ground has already been broken...