Word: penfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such fingers has McGill University's handsome Dr. Wilder Graves Penfield who told the International Neurological Congress how he opened the skulls of 75 epileptics, removed the scars and abscesses he found on their brains. A large number of the 75 were improved, remarked Dr. Penfield, and a few were cured...
...present. But it was going after membership. Proof of this fact was the Organizing Committee whose most prominent member is Mrs. Hortense Odium, president of Manhattan's Bonwit, Teller & Co. (clothes), wife of Investment Truster Floyd B. Odium of Atlas Corp. Legal counsellor is Mrs. Jean Nelson Penfield, New York attorney and onetime suffragette. National Director is Radio Lecturer Cathrine Curtis who claims she first decided to educate women investors when she overheard a dowager exclaim at a party: "Commodities are like utilities, I mean they are something like options. I have a box full of them...
Edward G. Spaulding, professor of Philosophy at Princeton, is the most prominent visiting lecturer yet announced. Others include: Penfield Roberts, associate professor of History and English at M.I.T., who will give a course on the "Western World since 1914"; George S. McManus of the Faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, and Dr. John W. Spargo, associate professor of English at Northwestern University. Stuart Chase and Sarah Wambaugh are slated to speak at a series of lectures...
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Died. Wilbur Morris Stine, 70, physicist, poet, educator; of apoplexy; at Penfield, Pa. Dr. Stine claimed that he was first (1892) to get an x-ray shadow picture, the first (1897) to suggest the remedial use of x-rays...