Word: scalp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Operation. In the operating room at Johns Hopkins Hospital two weeks ago the youth lay under anesthetic. His scalp had been shaved, scrubbed and treated with antiseptic. The room was hot. Dr. Dandy and his assistants, all in white, hair tied down out of sight and movement, masks over their mouths and noses, moved about. Their every action was smooth, definite, quiet. Instruments-scalpels, hemostats, forceps, needles, saws, chisels, mallet-bandages, medicaments lay in exact, orderly place. There was a contrivance, which the surgeon used later, for pumping air by a special process into the skull cavity to keep...
...layoff will be decided this afternoon when it takes on Andover in the Freshman Gymnasium at 4 o'clock. Four games have been won by the Freshmen out of four played this season, but the team that beat 1928 last year comes to Cambridge today in search of another scalp...
After Fourth Scalp...
Conversion by the sword seems to apply alike to gods and galoshes. The derbied and the turbaned Turk are brothers below the scalp. Their desires repressed on the battle-fields of the Balkans and in the valleys of Armenia, find vent in less holy carnage on the Black Sea coast. But it must be tedious for the more peaceful Moslems to spend their mornings in detailed perusal of statute books, lost a life be at stake in the crease of a trouser leg or the tilt of a hat brim...
William Crapo Durant* is a wiry little man, 64 years old, still indomitable in the face of physical or financial blows. He was lying abed last week in the Post Graduate Hospital, Manhattan, his scalp badly lacerated from a Florida train wreck early in the month. His physicians could not keep him quiet at home; ordered him to the hospital; permitted him to use the telephone. He learned that some of his pet stocks-among them Baldwin Locomotive, U. S. Cast Iron Pipe, and Independent Oil & Gas were being gnawed at on the Stock Exchange. To W. W. Murphy...