Word: program
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the general fact that many epileptics do not have any brain abnormalities which might be considered responsible for the seizures. To test their hunch, the doctors placed 14 epileptic children under the care of a coach, who helped them develop "athlete's heart" through a strenuous program of rowing, running, basketball, football. At the same time the patients were placed on the traditional low-water diet, to dehydrate their brains and allow a greater volume of blood within their skulls. Within two months, all but one of the patients were completely free from attacks...
...Cotton is like a sinking ship. When a ship at sea is sinking, you do not wait to work out navigation problems and try to devise a long-range program. You just shout, 'Man the lifeboats!' Now we are trying to man the lifeboats for cotton...
After a short program of Bach, Hindemith and Dvorak, sung by the club, all those present will be invited to join in singing a group of college songs...
...last concert, given before a crowd of over a thousand, was broadcast over short wave station W1XAL and carried to all parts of the world. Harvard men in Cartwright, Labrador, 1500 miles north of Boston, reported hearing the program...
...fight for the retention of Walsh and Swoezy may have been in vain. But this year's trenchant proposals for tenure reform and complete departmental democracy may cut more ice with the powers that be than the Faculty Committee's exhaustive report on the same subject. The Union's program was not only written for the younger men, but also by the younger...