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...days one Vera Stone, 18, Tennessee girl, hiccoughed. She acked, eked, icked, ooked, ucked until she nearly died. Her diaphragm jerked until it ached and her arms and hands went numb. Doctors at Ripley, her home, and Memphis, where she was hospitalized, sought causes-irritation of the stomach's mucous membranes, affection of the phrenic (diaphragm) nerve, peritonitis, sleeping sickness (encephalitis lethargica), methyl chloride escaping from a mechanical refrigerator. None of these were causative. They made her gulp cold water and hold her breath. That usually stops hiccoughs, but not Vera Stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hiccoughs | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...exhibition of some of the work of several members of the staff of the School of Architecture has been opened in the Old Fogg Museum. Professors J. J. Haffner and K. J. Conant, and Messrs. H. D. Murphy, H. B. Warren, and A. L. Ripley are represented in the exhibition, which includes water colors, oil paintings, drawings, and work in other media...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: School of Architecture | 5/29/1929 | See Source »

Cartoonist Hix does not seem quite so able with his pencil as Cartoonist Ripley. Astounder Ripley, after nine years, does not seem quite so astounding as fresh Astounder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hix v. Ripley | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...Hallowell '32 clipped 2 2-5 seconds from the mark set by Ripley of Dartmouth in the Stadium for the half mile. Hallowell's time was 1 minute, 56 4-5 seconds for the fastest 880 ever run at Exeter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Prepares for Impending Yale Clash by Narrow Victory Over Green | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...yard run--Won by Ripley (D); second R. P. Porter '29; third, Andrews (D). Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Green Spikemen Bow in Meet Featured by Startling Upsets | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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