Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walter Monckton, 48, onetime legal adviser to King Edward VIII. Each Government department now issues its own news as it did before the War, has its own censors, responsible to Sir Walter. From their Whitehall offices bulletins go to Bloomsbury. There newsmen write dispatches, submit them to a second board of censors before they can be released...
...towering, cream-brick buildings: Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.* Most extraordinary of the hospitals in this doctors' Mecca is the 14-story Neurological Institute, erected ten years ago through the heroic efforts of late, great Neurologist Frederick Tilney. Last year, after wielding an influence among devoted young neurologists second only to that of famed Harvey Gushing (see p. 60), Dr. Tilney died. As acting director, the trustees appointed modest Dr. Robert Frederick Loeb. Last week, warmhearted, diplomatic Tracy Putnam came down from Harvard to take Dr. Tilney's place...
...electroencephalograph. Tiny lead electrodes are pasted to the patient's scalp. From the electrodes fine, threadlike wires lead to the machine which detects, through scalp and skull, faint electric brain impulses. A connected drum and ink recorder charts patterns. Normal frequency is ten shallow, rippling, regular waves a second. Abnormal brain waves, often running to 25 a second, show up as irregular plateaus, spikes or scallops. Skilled interpreters can read characteristic abnormal wave patterns as indications of approaching epilepsy, can even use them to locate surface brain tumors. Typical epilepsy pattern looks very much like a string of trylons...
...France's 50,000 Catholic "regular" priests (in religious orders), 8,000 were mobilized last week. Leading in numbers were Jesuits, Christian Brothers and the peaceable Franciscans. Typical fighting fathers: Franciscan Aviation Captain Boigerolles; Pere Godefroy of the White Fathers, second lieutenant in the Senegalese sharpshooters; Jesuit Father Carre, in the tank corps...
Politically cynical ("Share the wealth? A very amusing proposal"), he got that way either by being the son of a Boston politician (Democratic Mayor) or by amassing a fortune before he was 30, after dropping out of Harvard in his second year...