Word: lusk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stroock & Co. had hardly wiped off the red ink from two bad years when Mrs. Murphy went to work. A graduate of Spring Valley (N.Y.) High School and Manhattan's Lusk Institute (now defunct), she learned fashion and fabrics by going to night school and hobnobbing with Manhattan's Seventh Avenue garment makers. Soon she was designing new weaves and color combinations and plugging the fleecy fabrics that go into the "Stroock Look." She was put in charge of advertising and publicity; when war came she helped supervise the company's mill at Newburgh, N.Y., was made...
...Headed for a night out, Mr. & Mrs. Ed Rumney of Lusk, Wyo. were unable to locate a baby-sitter in their home town. In their two-seat private plane they flew 28 miles to Lance Creek, found one, flew her back. The next morning they flew her home...
...exemption of a school that did not dismiss a suspected faculty member. If a teacher were actually indicted by the district attorney and convicted by the courts for advocating violent overthrow of the government, the institution which employed him would lose its charter. New York State's Lusk Laws, passed in 1921, are the only precedent for this sort of legislation. Characterized by Governor Al Smith as "vicious" and intolerant," they were repealed two years after their passage...
...your May 19 issue you say: "Eugene DuBois . . . got interested in the fuel-consumption processes of the body in 1911. . . . He and famed Physiologist Graham Lusk were the first ... to use the calorimeter . . . on human subjects...
Eugene DuBois (rhymes with new choice) got interested in the fuel-consumption processes of the body in 1911, when medicine was just waking up to the interrelation between physiological processes and disease. He and famed Physiologist Graham Lusk were the first in the U.S. to use the calorimeter (a device that measures the output of body heat) on human subjects. The modern basal metabolism test, which measures the rate of body processes by measuring oxygen consumption, is a lineal descendant of the DuBois calorimeter...