Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happy. For 18 of his 45 years he has had pains in his stomach. Last month he entered Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital, where physicians at first thought his left kidney might be displaced. Then an x-ray showed a growth in his stomach. But on an x-ray plate exposed a week later the growth had disappeared. The physicians were stumped. As may any prolonged internal discomfort, Henry Harrington's pains might indicate cancer. But with x-ray there was no way to tell until the cancer should attain a considerable mass. Last week Dr. John Falenks...
Editor Lorentz gives major space to New Deal economic experiments, labor troubles, Russian recognition; prints President Roosevelt's picture 18 times. The book borrows frequently and happily from the omnipresent newsreels, more frequently but less happily from plate photographers. Rivers and dams, airviewed and minuscule, announce the Tennessee Valley Administration; nine scenes in Russia herald its recognition. Good shots: Assassin Zangara looking pleased with the headlines; a laughing lynch-crowd in California; empty freight-cars in a yard. Grisly shot: the naked, charred body of Negro Warner, lynched & burned near St. Joseph...
Still grinning, Photographer Corvelli raced to his office. Junior Roosevelt had forgotten to go after the film plate, which was tucked safely in Corvelli's pocket during the scuffle...
...fifth inning had hit his first homerun in two years, was on third base, with two out. New York's Catcher Kies threw to second, to catch a base-stealer. Maranville started for home. Instead of sliding face first, as usual, Maranville tried to run across the plate. As he reached in to touch it, his shin cracked against Rookie Kies's leg-guard. Maranville turned a somersault, landed with the lower part of his left leg grotesquely dangling. It was broken in two places, five inches above the ankle. Doctors who reset it at a St. Petersburg...
...Abiel Rolfe comes from Penacook, N. H., graduated from Dartmouth in 1931, batted .326 for Newark last year, when he was voted most valuable player in the International League. Redhaired, ruddy-faced, his stance in the infield is characterized by a noticeable stoop, feet pointed directly at the home plate. Last week, in an exhibition game at St. Petersburg, Rolfe's single, with two out in the ninth inning, sent Heffner home with the run that beat Newark...