Word: short
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father still thought she was crazy when, just short of her 33rd birthday, she enrolled at Tufts College Medical School. But she graduated summa cum laude. Soon after her internship, Dr. Jordan got an invitation from up-and-coming Surgeon Frank H. Lahey to join him in a new clinic. No surgeon, Dr. Jordan deliberately narrowed her field from the broad specialty of internal medicine to the new subspecialty of gastroenterology. In working days of 14 to 18 hours, she devoted her seemingly inexhaustible energy to the diagnosis and treatment of indigestion, peptic ulcers (in stomach, duodenum and small bowel...
...Heal Thyself." By 1929 Dr. Jordan had developed a duodenal ulcer of her own. As she lay unconscious on the operating table for removal of her gall bladder (it had stones in one wall), Surgeon Lahey debated whether to do more major surgery, a short-circuiting (stomach to intestine) operation. When she came to, Dr. Jordan was vastly relieved to learn that he had decided against it. She went on to cure her ulcer with her own treatment. It has never recurred...
...short-wave radio voice belonged to an Alaskan schoolteacher doubling as practical nurse in the remote hamlet of Marshall on the Yukon River. The doctor was William Henry Brownlee Jr., 37, making his rounds among the 10,000 people who depend on his hospital at Bethel (pop. 1,000). Radio is the only way he can do it; his territory embraces 50,000 sq. mi.-bigger than New York State...
...pass for the victory. Lehigh gambled and won 8-7. ¶ Southern California made two last-quarter touchdowns to come within a point of favored Michigan. Like Lehigh, Southern Cal went for the win, wound up 20-19 losers when the pass play for two points was stopped short of the end zone...
Somewhere between A.D. 280 and 325, Meates figures, the master of the villa died. His wife had died a short time before, and preparations for their afterlife were well advanced. On the hill behind the villa, a temple 40 ft. square was partly constructed, and its inner sanctuary was prepared to receive the dead. The bodies of the master and his wife, sealed into lead coffins, were lowered into the earth. Food and drink were put into the grave as provisions for the journey to the isles of the dead. Two knives and two spoons were placed neatly beside...