Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This curious result may have only a local significance. The women in the study were students in a girls' college in the shadow of a large university attended only by men. They were dependant for all their instruction on teachers from the neighboring university, and the . . . men seemed to undermine the women's confidence in the . . . abilities of their own sex, and of themselves...
Shortly after 8 o'clock on the evening of Dog Day-plus-15, Dr. Silvis and I crawled through the blacked-out entrance into one of these cistern operating rooms. Beneath the big non-shadow electric lamps lay a Marine captain who had been a Jap machine gunner's target about three hours earlier. Dr. John A. Harper held up the wounded man's slashed, liver-colored spleen: "We also took out a piece of kidney," he said, "and he has a bullet through his diaphragm and lung. He asked for a priest right away." Silvis pulled...
Your medical editor passed quite a "boner" in your marvelous tale from Brazil (TIME, Feb. 5) in which it is stated that "X rays proved that Spiritualist Bernardi's appendix had actually been removed [during a seance in a dark room]." Every medical man knows that the barium shadow of the appendix when in situ [in the body] is rarely seen. . . . The absence of such a shadow cannot possibly prove that the appendix is missing...
...correct answer was given to the question throughout the day. . . . When relating this experience to a member of the staff.* The barium shadow of the appendix can be seen often, not "rarely." But Dr. Singley's main point still holds: as proof of the absence of the appendix the X-ray test is unreliable. of Columbia University Library, she sadly bemoaned the ignorance of the average person of facts pertaining to our country. I broke in with, "Can you tell me the location of the State of Kansas?" She could not! . . . The Little Red Schoolhouse had its points...
...Then the rest of the plan began to unfold. Cruisers and destroyers stood off the mouth of Manila Bay, battering Corregidor's guns into sullen silence. From Olongapo, recently captured naval station in Bataan's northwest corner, minesweepers dashed in under the threatening shadow of Corregidor and swept a channel into Mariveles harbor, at the southern tip of Bataan. Landing craft followed them. The first wave got off lightly; the next waves were less fortunate. But the Japs were disorganized. Within a few hours a junction was made near Lamao with the 1st Infantry Regiment. Bataan was sealed...