Word: penfield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Phillips Brooks House announced the election of three new officers for 1959-1960 last night. Robert R. Little '60, of Lowell House and Penfield, N.Y., was chosen president; Sheldon Greenfield '60, of Leverett House and Cincinnati, Ohio, first vice-president; and Stephen R. Crespin '60, of Dunster House and Cincinnati, Ohio, second vice-president...
...with the Devil. The struggle lasted three years and was foredoomed; faster than Congregationalist Shipherd could preach the old time religion, Elyria's storekeepers passed out free whisky to boost trade. The Rev. Mr. Shipherd abandoned the town to its wickedness and with one disciple, the Rev. Philo Penfield Stewart, set out into north Ohio's dense elm forest. On swampy ground, a safe nine miles away, he founded Oberlin College...
...less activity-only more variety. She has a lot of technical medical writing to catch up on, wants to get back to the classics she has had to neglect for so long, and to learn Spanish. Dr. Jordan wants more free time with her second husband, retired Investment Banker Penfield Mower, and to get to Boston Symphony concerts. And she will have a tough stint as a six-day-a-week columnist for King Features Syndicate. Appropriately, her first "Health and Happiness" column for next week begins: "Let's face it: old age must be lived and lived with...
...DORSEN Penfield...
...Penfield reasons, his stimulations of the temporal lobe are like a process that is common in everyday life: a flashback of past experience, and an almost instantaneous comparison of the present with previous similar experiences. For this area of the brain, to which no function had been assigned, he proposes the term "interpretive cortex." Its discovery, he suggests, is a step toward explaining what Hippocrates called the brain's power to "distinguish the ugly from the beautiful, the bad from the good, the pleasant from the unpleasant...