Word: mayd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of research, he tracked down 164 cases, reports Dr. Bean (now at the University of Iowa) in the current A.M.A. Journal. The cases range over 300 years, from a "woeman or mayd in Suffolk who had a julking and fluctuation in her chest . . . heard by the standers by," to soldiers in modern war. Some of the noises-likened to the grinding of gears, the rustling of leaves, the crunching of newspapers, the cooing of doves-have kept their victims awake for nights on end; others have made it impossible for husbands or wives to sleep in the same room...
Backs Dick Hoffman and Ed Moll, end Bill Wright, and quarterback John South-mayd, stars of the Bellboy game last Friday, will start against a Belmont Hill team that is weakened by several injuries...