Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even more serious. Short on troops to be sent to India and Egypt, the General Staff has decreed that practically all territorial regiments be immediately converted into antiaircraft battalions, thus liberating regular army detachments for service abroad. Bank clerks and stockjobbers, drilling once a week, are expected to master the complexities of high-angle range tables, multiple machine guns, acoustic range finders...
...famed, but they are exceedingly well known to each other. For the past several months they have been following with surprise and concern the career of the latest addition to their minute number-Mrs. Bela de Tuscan of Detroit. Married to Detroit's best fencing master, trained as a dancer until her husband persuaded her to take up foils three years ago, Mrs. de Tuscan made sensational headway in the Olympic tryouts that have been going on all winter. Her colleagues could hardly wait to see what her final rating would be in these and how she would fare...
Last week at the New York Academy of Medicine four able investigators explained how coronary thrombosis, a common cause of heart failure, can be overcome and the victim's life prolonged indefinitely. What Boston's Dr. Edward Franklin Bland and Manhattan's Drs. Arthur Morris Master, Harry Lawrence Jaffe and Simon Dack had to say was good news for every overworked man in his fifties...
...symptoms of coronary thrombosis were set forth last week by Drs. Master, Jaffe & Dack as follows: "Severe pain in the chest, signs of shock, a drop in blood pressure, increase in the number of white blood cells, fever, diminution in intensity of heart sounds, a pericardial rub and typical electrocardiographic changes (q, t and rs-t deviations) serve as evidence of an attack of thrombosis. When in doubt the patient should be treated as if he had suffered a coronary artery occlusion. He should be put to bed and a search patiently made for the signs just described...
...males than among females. The former, however, appear to survive more frequently the acute attack and also to live longer thereafter. In our experience prolonged nervous tension directly related to professional or business responsibility appears to be the most important single contributing factor. ' Added Manhattan's Drs. Master, Jaffe & Dack: "The ages of the patients studied ranged between 27 and 87 years. The average was 54 years, both for men and women. The average age of those who died was 57 years...