Word: matildas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Matilda Klopenheimer" ate first shift dinner with Cabot Hall residents last night, and was then placed on social pro for wearing her hair in a pincurl and bandanna. Though she excused her bass voice by saying she suffered from a slight attack of laryngitis, her unfamiliarity with the Radclice routine made her position doubtful...
...Matilda gave her home as Hammaching, Mich. Asked about the laundry problem over such a distance, she confessed "I do my personal laundry myself, and send home just the heavier things, like bluejeans...
...fights old age. He still goes elk hunting (in a jeep), deliberately loses the cane he was forced to adopt, still smokes 30 cigarettes a day (they are specially rolled for him by one Mrs. Matilda Granditzky, of Sweden's tobacco monopoly). Recently he demonstrated his favorite acrobatic trick to his gasping entourage: sitting on a chair, he lifted both legs and placed his feet behind his ears...
Handle Dept. In Westport, Conn., Howard Gagg married Matilda Jester. In Camp Kilmer, N.J., the Army returned a pistol confiscated from C. E. Outlaw of Guntown, Miss...
...Matilda M. Brooks, a University of California physiologist, discovered in 1932 that the drug known as methylene blue counteracts the oxygen starvation caused by certain poisons (cyanide, carbon monoxide). Acting as a catalyst, the drug improves oxygen absorption by the red blood cells, thereby helping the body to make the most of a curtailed oxygen supply. Recently Dr. Brooks journeyed to Peru, where travelers in the high Andes are subject to soroche, a common fainting sickness caused by lack of oxygen (TIME, June 23). Dr. Brocks took some medical students up to an altitude of 15,000 feet and gave...