Word: heartbeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9. (The Boston Symphony Orchestra with Robert Shaw chorus, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 16 sides). Anyone who heard Toscanini's magnificent broadcast will want to avoid this album: the accents are muffled, the tempos sluggish and the heartbeat missing. Recording: poor...
...nation's heartbeat is in its cities. This year, on the lake fronts, at the railheads, in the mountains, on the seaboards, the cities of the U.S., prospering in the postwar boom, throbbed with civic projects, civic pride, bond issues, expanding industry and trade. In old, carefree and once corrupt New Orleans, now reformed and very businesslike, the heartbeat was firm...
...machine that feeds into the brain a weak electrical current automatically adjusted to the brain's resistance. Instead of shocking the brain, the current puts it in a coma. Like the shock treatment, the new electrical shot-in-the-brain momentarily stops the patient's heartbeat and breathing. But after a course of comparatively mild treatments under electronarcosis, he wakes up a changed...
Republican Congressmen were pleased with the week's work. With obvious enthusiasm, the House passed and sent to Harry Truman the presidential succession measure which put the Speaker of the House next in line for the nation's highest office. Speaker Joe Martin, now just one heartbeat from the White House, said that he hoped President Truman would continue to enjoy "the best of health...
...place of the usual transfusion into a vein, they pumped blood into an artery, under pressure. In 70% of the cases, the dogs survived. In one experiment, dogs were bled to the point of death. Twenty out of 23 were revived after they had been clinically "dead" (no heartbeat or breathing) for five minutes...