Word: shinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lorand Julius Bela Gluzek has rigged up an efficient little machine called a dolorimeter, which measures pain in grams. It would have made the Marquis de Sade very happy. Just put the victim's leg on the leg rest, put the pressure inductor on his shin bone and pump up the pressure until it hurts. That indicates the threshold at which pain begins (and the victim-however Spartan-is supposed to yell). The threshold varies from 500 (for the Gummidge type) to 2,700 grams, depending on the person's nervous system...
...measure pain anywhere in the body-Marat's itch, Prometheus' pecked liver and Job's ulcers would have been equally fair game. The machine is applied to the patient's leg and the squeeze increased beyond the threshold, up & up until the agonized shin bone makes the patient forget his neuralgia or whatever was hurting him. A reading at that point gauges the severity of the neuralgia, the sores or the itch. By comparing the first day's pain intensity with successive days' recordings, the progress of the complaint can be charted. According...
...Duke" took to his adopted country's No. 1 sport so featly that the New York Giants' famed Manager John McGraw made Bresnahan his No. 1 catcher in 1902. He caught Christy Mathewson, one of baseball's alltime greats, wore baseball's first pair of shin guards. Traded to St. Louis in 1908, ruddy, iron-jawed, black-haired Bresnahan served there as playing manager, retired from the sport...
...Chinese Ambassador to the United States and outstanding philosopher and historian, will teach the history of Chinese thought, from 700 B.C. to the present, for two terms, beginning next November. Formerly professor of Chinese Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Letters at the National University of Peiping, Dr. Shin is recognized as the leading figure in the Chinese literary renaissance...
Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art celebrated its 15th birthday last week. The celebration took the form of a massive show which was to earlier Modern Museum shows as lightning to static electricity. Only at the risk of shin splints did gallerygoers poke into all the corners of the Museum's spectacular open house. Outstanding were...