Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps a modern team would like to face the 1881 Harvard schedule, a part of which read: Saturday! October 12. Brittania at Montreal; Monday October 21, Michigan at Boston; Wednesday, November 2, Pennsylvania at New York; Saturday, November 5, Columbia at Cambridge...
...eighteenth century politics, science, and society. Yet Mr. Thompson seems far more bent in his book on playfully pointing out the quaint ways of our forebears in that remote age than on giving us a true picture of his subject. Perhaps no one else who has ever really read a book printed before 1800 has been amused by the old typographical character for the lower case "s". It is no funnier to one who is familiar with the period than the fact that men then were knee-breeches and not trousers. But Mr. Thompson quotes paragraph after paragraph to show...
Tonus. Dr. Yandell Henderson of Yale was too sick at New Haven to present personally the most significant lecture of the series, an explanation of why people feel "all in" after operations, injuries, anesthesia and severe illness. Dr. Henderson sent his younger colleague, Dr. Howard Wilcox Haggard, to read the prepared lecture...
...Physiologists, especially those interested in the nervous system," read Dr. Henderson's proxy, "understand fully that posture, particularly the ability to stand erect, or to hold up one's head, is dependent upon tonus. It is not, however, sufficiently emphasized, or even generally realized, that when a patient is too weak to stand or even to hold up his head, his condition is generally one of extremely low tonus...
...been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience & to this day I cherish an unappeasable bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again this side of the grave. Ask that young lady -she will tell you so. "Most honestly do I wish that I could say a softening word...