Word: nathaniel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bold patients taught themselves to speak by swallowing air and belching it out in grunts, but until Temple University's Dr. Nathaniel Martin Levin built belch-talk into a system, most larynxless men could never hope to speak again. During the past three years, brief, brisk Dr. Levin has taught 30 men belch-talk. His method is simple, takes some patients only one or two days to learn, is most successful when started right after the operation. A patient swallows air through his mouth, pushes it right out again with his abdominal muscles, chops it into speech with...
...theologies. To consider and try to answer the hard questions Christians ask themselves in war, some Britons lately began The Christian News-Letter. Among them were the Archbishop of York, Lord David Cecil, Catholic Christopher Dawson, Anglo-Catholics T. S. Eliot and J. Middleton Murry, Detectifictioneer Dorothy Sayers, Theologians Nathaniel Micklem and Reinhold Niebuhr. Editor is Joseph Houldsworth Oldham, Presbyterian-turned-Anglican, leader in the slow-forming World Council of Churches...
...Cats," said Driver Nathaniel Alexander. "I sell them to Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Ordinary cats are 35?, fat cats 50?. It's better than home relief...
...Most scholarly and influential modern studies: by Nathaniel Schmidt, William Sanday, G. Stanley Hall, Joseph Klausner (a Jew), Shirley Jackson Case, Charles Guignebert...
First U. S. mariner to see Antarctica was Nathaniel B. Palmer, a sealer out of Stonington, Conn., in 1820. In 1840, Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, U. S. N., sent by Congress, sighted its white peaks, declared it to be a continental land mass. To Palmer Land from the tip of South America is only 575 nautical miles. Political argument is that the million-square-mile sector explored by U. S. visitors from Palmer to Byrd (and Lincoln Ellsworth) should be claimed in toto, instead of in spots, brought within the Monroe Doctrine's sphere, before Germany or another power moves...