Word: northwestern
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...ears that could remember echoes, the minor strains were far older than Ruskin. Not so much for his gently conventional verse as for his U. S. background was Poet Lionel Wiggam notable. Twenty-year-old son of a welterweight champion and a farmer's daughter, he entered Northwestern University at 15, left to play in a stock company, hang wallpaper, work on a road-gang, as a janitor; went back to college on a scholarship when his poems began to be published. Meantime he was leading a literary double life as pseudonymous writer of lurid tales for the pulp...
Premier Quiroga is a tough, tense little lawyer from the northwestern province of Galicia. Rich, honest, a spectacular conversationalist, he has had a hard time, in explosive Spain, living down his effective suppression of the Anarchist riots in 1932 when he was Minister of Interior in Manuel Azaña's first Cabinet...
...DeLee (originally d'Lee) founded Chicago's Lying-in Hospital in 1895 when Chicago's poor mothers could get no decent midwifery, when he was abysmally poor and four years out of Chicago Medical College (now part of Northwestern University). After the Women's Christian Temperance Union had ignored him, he turned to Chicago Jews who gave him a total of $500. A Christian doctor gave him a stove, a table, some chairs and an old carpet. His family supplied linen. From a second-hand store he got two beds. With that he started Chicago...
...such an extent that he could give Lying-in Hospital his check for $55,000 during a money-raising campaign. The Hospital is now affiliated with the University of Chicago. Dr. DeLee's dream is to have associated hospitals affiliated with Chicago's other great medical schools, Northwestern and Illinois, with Dr. Joseph Bolivar DeLee grand chief obstetrician for all Chicago...
...voices record them phonographically. At the disposal of the country's blind are some 5,000 books translated into Braille. But whether he listens to a recording or reads Braille, the blind person must confine himself to those books which have been selected for him. Last week at Northwestern University a young graduate student in psychology named Emil Ranseen demonstrated an invention by which a sightless reader patient enough to learn a touch code may read any book he chooses. After it is adjusted for proper spacing, a scanner supported on tiny rollers moves back & forth across the printed...