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These collateral branches are like residential side streets-little used when the through roads are open. Unfortunately, it is immediately after an attack that the heart is least able to use the side-street arteries: the blood pressure is low, and it takes above-normal pressure to open promptly the narrow, neglected collaterals. The time to do this, Dr. Jacobey concluded, is in the intervals (diastole) between heart contractions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: Heart, Lung, Brain | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

Tenements, still the city's drab cincture to its towers, menaced a thousand rubbish-strewn, treeless streets. Subway passengers broiled; Broadway theaters and side-street restaurants hung "Delightfully Air Conditioned" banners or closed for the season. The greenery-edged hem of the metropolis echoed to domestic sounds -the whir of lawnmowers, the jingling ice-cream-truck bells, the clink of beer glasses, shrieks of splashing children in backyard wading pools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: Strong Arm of the Law | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

Scene: a side-street just off the Square, where a man is spinning the wheels of his car in a vain effort to maneuver out of the icy snow in which he is parked...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: Street Scene | 1/14/1958 | See Source »

...night while striding down the street in black-caped majesty, this Harvardian aroused the suspicions of a Cambridge officer, who obviously felt that no law-abiding citizen should be caught dead in a long black cape. Seeing this sinister character emerge from a dark side-street, the officer immediately summoned the assistance of two Cambridge youths in order to detain the supposed culprit. The appearance of uncivil inhabitants of the town at an official arrest caused some confusion in the student's mind, and ill-considered words were exchanged on both sides. When the student was found to be without...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Black Cloaks and Bluecoats | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...arty airs at musicales. Stan's bitter cup is not full, however, until Amy. in a climacteric crisis, commits adultery with a red-haired traveling salesman. A tongue-tied Lear, Stan buries his sorrow in a drunken, big-city binge, winds up lying among empty crates in a side-street lot and spits at the "paper sky, quite flat, and white, and Godless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Australian with a Hoe | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

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