Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open the way for Bailey, assistants now passed tourniquets like cotton shoelaces around both great veins but did not yet draw them tight. Another tourniquet went around the right subclavian artery. With a needle holder like a long, slender pair of pliers, Bailey dipped his needle lightly in and out of the wall of the right auricle, drawing only a few drops of blood as he made two circular (purse-string) sutures. "Suction." An assistant dipped a glass-tipped rubber tube, attached to a vacuum pump, into the heart bed, drew out the spilled blood. With fine team coordination, Bailey...
...treasure into mortgages and loans to individuals and small businessmen. All told, $6.1 billion of the Pru's assets, some 46%, is tied up in mortgages and real estate, proportionately more than any other life insurance company. The Pru is the world's biggest private holder of home mortgages (500,000), one of the biggest financers of huge skyscrapers (Manhattan's Empire State Building, Chicago's Merchandise Mart, Cincinnati's Terrace Hilton Hotel), a strong backer of the new shopping-center boom. It supplied $8,000,000 for Minneapolis' new Southdale Center...
...Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Bottle Imp, with Farley Granger, and Geoffrey Holder, a calypso singer and dancer, in a bizarre tale of voodoo...
Harvard's William Boeckler has bettered both these marks with 52.6 in the 100 and 23.4 in the 50. In the 200-yard backstroke, Gary Pildner, holder of the Yardling record, is favored...
Ironically, the worst split on the relay was recorded by Aubrey, supposedly the Elis leading sprinter and holder of the present Yale record at 49.0. It seems likely, however, that Kiphuth will throw his ace, and perhaps Armstrong, against Dyer, for he makes a practice of loading the events in which he expects tough competition. John Lind or Ron Mischner will have the dubious pleasure of swimming in the same race...