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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Victims of electric shock, or drowning, or patients who die under anaesthetics may be brought back to life by the immediate injection of adrenalin with a needle directly into the heart. This has been demonstrated by Dr. George W. Crile, Cleveland surgeon, and his nephew, Dr. Dennis R. W. Crile, of Chicago, on patients of their own who had been pronounced dead, they told the Chicago Medical Society and the American Association of Anaesthetists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Resurrection | 4/14/1923 | See Source »

Three years ago William Z. Foster, notorious radical leader and chief organizer of the steel strike in 1919, predicted that in the near future strikes would be organized with all the scientific preparation of a military campaign, with a trained commissary department, shock troops, labor liberty loans, conscription of strikers' families, and all the material, financial equipment, and propaganda necessary to wage a modern industrial class war. His prediction has had a partial fulfilment in the school for strikers which operated three months prior to the dress and waist makers' strike in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: A School for Strikers | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

...prevent dependence on orders from above he forbids assumption of any duties unless peculiar to the office. With a man at the head who is willing to adopt new theories and attack old dangers, it can be hoped that our army, though small, will be fit to withstand the shock of sudden activity ad expansion if need arise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENRAL ORDERS NO. 2 | 3/2/1923 | See Source »

...sharp earthquake shock was registered yesterday afternoon at the University Seismographic Station at 11 minutes 36 seconds past 4 o'clock. It was calculated that the earthquake took place about 2770 miles from Cambridge at three minutes 44 seconds past 4 o'clock. The direction was not determined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY STATION RECORDS SHARP EARTHQUAKE SHOCK | 1/23/1923 | See Source »

...There is a pleasing really about it all, a perfection of consistency, which is the chief appeal in such work. It was a great shock, therefore, when in the last five minutes of the play the designing "Mrs. Borridge" bursts forth, in the pressence of her intended victims, in a tirade-against her daughter for not "getting something on paper" which might serve as evidence in a breach of promise suit. The scene is pure farce of the most extravagant kind and tolerably funny. But it is in keeping neither with the character of the shrewd fortune-hunting woman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH COMEDY AGAIN CHARMS AT COPLEY | 12/13/1922 | See Source »

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