Word: patten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tobin taught him how to box when he was 14. In high school Eddie Eagan was interested in history. He observed that most U. S. heroes started out as lawyers, determined to do likewise. Admiring the deeds of Frank Merriwell, hero of boys' books by Author Gilbert Patten, he decided to emulate Hero Merriwell also. He got a scholarship at Denver University. While he was there, Jack Dempsey came to town. They boxed an exhibition match. Eagan gave Demp sey a hard punch on the jaw. "He [Dempsey] hummed the tune 'Everybody Two-Step,' keeping time with...
...sanatoria and hospitals of Tucson, Ariz, last week. St. Mary's Hospital was calling: "Have you an extra oxygen tent? We have a 12-year-old boy here who's failing. . . . Operation for mastoid.'' Not one extra tent was there in all the dozen institutions. Patten Levings, son of the city editor of the Los Angeles Evening Herald & Express, would have to die for lack of oxygen-rich...
...Tucson watched the triangular action. In St. Mary's Hospital Patten Levings was unconscious. In Desert Sanatorium wan Alice Hilliard was expectant. That first day wind and rain forced Pilot Reiss down at Bellefonte, Pa., and McKeesport, Pa. He stayed over night at Columbus, Ohio. The second day winds up to 100 m. p. h. forced him to hedgehop past Indianapolis and Oklahoma City to Fort Worth. When he landed there near midnight he learned that he was no longer a savior, only a freight deliverer. Patten Levings had died. Miss Hilliard was in no great need of oxygen...
...Bradley Merrill Patten, embryologist of Western Reserve University, showed a film, taken with a special microscopic lens, of the heart of an unhatched chicken. Twenty-nine hours after incubation, five days before the formation of any nerve tissue, the heart began to beat. The beat began in the portion of the heart which later became the right ventricle, not in the "pacemaker" portion, where begin the normal beats of a fully developed heart. The pictures showed that before the formation of any chambers the heart is a straight tube with no indentations. Later it twists upon itself, becomes U-shaped...
...William Patten, Dartmouth zoology...