Word: sloughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following wounds were often severe and prolonged. Gratifying salvage of apparently hopeless gangrenous forearms, hands, ankles, and feet rewarded expectant conservative nursing measures. The dead parts were permitted to separate spontaneously. A black, cold, apparently lifeless limb re covered often with loss of only toes and fingers or superficial slough... ''Students and young doctors were trained in emergency surgery and anes thesia. Their Peiping Union Medical College training proved a splendid foundation and proficiency was rapidly obtained. One thousand and seventy-seven operations were performed under chloroform anesthesia with no immediate fatality or accident. The work was divided...
More than two years ago a thin, fine rain of inflation sentiment began to fall on the Slough of Depression. Nine months ago men realized there was a rising flood. By October when the last of the old gold standard was submerged many a man saw in his mind's eye the members of Congress assembling in an inundated Capitol wading through the green waters of the flood, legislating in a sea of deep greenbackery. Last week the prophets of catastrophe saw that they were at least in part mistaken. The flood looked silvery, not green and the direction...
...been a matter of some years since a Princeton football team has risen to such heights as the present one. And the Tiger's newfound athletic glory is made not less sweet by his sudden leap from the slough of 1930 and 1931. Princeton has a great team, and Princeton men are fully aware of it. A transcontinental trip is not required to prove it. --Daily Princetonian...
...Dust for a week when her second husband, Paul Bern Levy, assistant production chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, shot himself dead (TIME, Sept. 19). Soon afterward the body of Bern's common-law first wife, Dorothy Millette, clothed in a black silk dress, was found in Georgiana Slough in the Sacramento River, caught in brushwood under low-hanging willows. Bern's will left all he had to Jean Harlow, but the Sacramento Public Administrator claimed half his estate for the estate of Dorothy Millette as his "legal" wife. In Hollywood, Jean Harlow in highly becoming black dropped...
...name for the Maharajah's State) he finds much that Alice found in Wonderland, a topsy-turvy world with a peculiar logic all its own. Out of jottings in the journal kept during his stay he produces an effervescent book that will aerate many a reader's slough of midsummer despond...