Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mined platinum in Idaho, and began using the metal in his vacuum tubes. He was teaching chemistry and studying medicine at Chicago's Hahnemann Medical College (a homeopathic school, now defunct). There, three weeks after word of Roentgen's work got out. Grubbe displayed his burned left hand at a faculty meeting. A doctor suggested that anything capable of causing such a reaction in healthy tissue might be used in treating diseased tissue. Another doctor promptly referred a woman with breast cancer to Grubbe for X-ray treatment. Though she died within three months, Grubbe was confident that...
Finger Exercises. Dr. Grubbe could do nothing to check the slow but relentless advance of his own cancer. In scores of operations, he has lost his left hand (32 years ago) and forearm, most of his nose and upper lip. and much of his upper jaw. He was divorced in 1911, explains...
That was the way things usually did work out for James Moore Tatum. He won. One of nine children-and the last of five left tackles-born to a merchant-banker-farmer of varying fortune in McColl, S.C., Tatum was sent to the University of North Carolina by an uncle, was rugged enough (6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs.) to get an All-America mention or two in his senior year on Coach Carl Snavely's powerhouse. After graduating in 1935, Tatum signed on as Snavely's assistant, followed him to Cornell, and laid the foundations...
...crews must work on the Sabbath), Teitelbaum was welcomed by a crowd of black-robed, bearded Jews, who had waited along Haifa's docks under a burning sun. A few yards away, well segregated from their men, stood the women, sweating heavily under their enveloping black garments, which left only hands and face exposed to the air. The rabbi walked down the gangplank supported by two of the Israeli policemen that he recently compared to "Hitler's Gestapo." When photographers tried to take pictures, Teitelbaum covered himself, mumbled, "Thou shalt not make unto thee graven images...
...weaving, which soon brought prosperity to the village. St. Ronan, tradition has it, was driven out of town by a mob of angry shrews whose leader accused him of being a werewolf-she was afraid that the hermit was persuading her husband to become a monk. The saint left town walking barefoot across the rocky terrain outside the village...