Word: midget
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...measured and treated, the better. The trouble is that methods of measuring deafness which work well enough with adults are of little use with the very young. At the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, doctors are using a method which gets around this difficulty by combining a midget electric shock and Pavlov's psychology of conditioning...
...Midgets & Managers. The job is, in a sense, the biggest challenge in baseball. Some people maintain - and attendance figures bear them out - that St. Louis cannot support two major-league teams. For years, the American League Browns, winners of one pennant (1944) in 50 years, have barely kept out of the red. Rival American League teams, including such drawing cards as the New York Yankees, lose money on the trip to St. Louis. Last year, after effervescent Bill Veeck (rhymes with heck) bought the doormat Browns, things began to change. Using the showman stunts that brought fans out in droves...
...confidence" in the subcommittee, he said, but he added with wondrous logic that it ought to continue its work as a matter of principle. Then, as usual, he counterattacked: he challenged the Senate to order a similar investigation of his favorite enemy, Senator William Benton, the "odd little mental midget" from Connecticut, whose charges originally prompted the Senate to investigate McCarthy...
...truck been opened? At first, the cops speculated seriously that a midget had been hidden inside it. But a simpler explanation-which seemed to link the crime with the 1950 Brink's robbery-was soon forthcoming. Bank Truck 512, like other U.S. Trucking Corp, armored vehicles, was kept at night in Brink's Boston garage. Their keys, each with the truck's number, were kept in an unlocked drawer close to the street entrance. Almost anyone, it seemed, could have stolen a key or taken one long enough to get it duplicated. An ex-convict, now employed...
...usual DeMille touches--crowd scenes, production numbers, spectacular photography, and a sensational five-minute train crash that makes the wreck of Old 97 look like a kiddie-car collision. These parts and the circus acts are diverting and enjoyable providing of course you check your brain with the midget on duty in the lobby...