Word: rubbered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frederic Victor Guinzburg may be a novice at criminology but is far from unknown as a sculptor. Grandson of the founder of the I. B. Kleinert Rubber Co. (rubber dress shields, rubber diaper pants, etc.) he inherits his talent for sculpture from his mother. Son Frederic was studying sculpture with Victor David Brenner when he went to War. Back in the U. S. in 1919, he later became an assistant director of the School of American Sculpture in New York, studied in Rome and Florence. As it has most artists, Mexico has attracted him recently. He gave...
Died. Philip Joseph ("Mac") Magrath, 59, Manhattan's famed fistfighting priest who for 24 years (1907-31) crusaded against waterfront gangs (Hudson Dusters, Tin Can Athletic Club, Pig Alley Sports, Vinegar Hill Gang) with prayer-book and an 8-in. rubber hose vhich, he said, "drops 'em just as quick but doesn't crack the skull"; of heart disease; in Manhattan. In his Catholic Seamen's Mission hung a bold sign: "If you want to know who's boss START SOMETHING...
...major jobs, ether and gas together are frequently used. So is nembutal, which numbs without producing unconsciousness. Instruments, cotton and bandages are thoroughly sterilized, despite the fact that animals are less prone to infection than humans. Veterinary surgeons wear white caps and gowns while operating, occasionally masks and rubber gloves...
...physician a person's blood pressure is only one of several physiological facts needed for making an intelligent diagnosis. The physician measures the blood pressure by wrapping around the patient's upper arm a hollow rubber cuff to which is connected a graduated column of mercury. Applying a stethoscope over an artery in the forearm, the doctor pumps air into the hollow cuff until it stops circulation. At this instant the air pressure in the cuff equals the maximum (systolic) blood pressure in the arteries of the arm, and the doctor hears a sharp blowing sound...
...confused with Radiopriest Charles Edward Coughlin of Detroit, John J. Coughlin is famed as much for his bright waistcoats, his huge paunch and his absurd poetry, as for his losing racehorses. A onetime rubber in a Turkish bath establishment, he saved his tips, opened a bathhouse of his own in 1890. First all-night establishment in the city, it prospered promptly, enabled Bathhouse John to get a grip on the Democratic vote of Chicago's First Ward which he has never lost. Huge, burly, white-haired, he keeps sacks of potatoes and bread to dole out to his constituents...