Word: spider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ward and Spider Webb are in the two and three spots, and both need the confidence that comes with a couple of complete games behind them. Ward performed well for the Yardling nine last year, but his control still needs work. Southpaw Webb, on the other hand, is a control pitcher with a lot of trick stuff. He saw some service in relief roles before Crosby was discovered last year, and he may well continue in that pot for this season...
...Giants were weakest last year in bench [i.e., reserve] strength." This year something new has been added in Catcher Rafael Noble (TIME, April 2), Pitcher Roger Bowman (16-11 with Jersey City last season), Infielder Art Wilson, "who could play shortstop for anyone," and Utility Man John ("Spider") Jorgenson, "a good little left-handed hitter...
Colonel Alfred Redl was a master of his craft. While still in his 30s he rose to the General Staff and became chief of counter-intelligence for Austro-Hungary. His agents spider-webbed czarist Russia, and at home he confounded Russian spies who sought Austro-Hungarian military secrets. But talented Alfred Redl had one terrible weakness: he was a homosexual. Russian agents contrived a trap and caught him one day; then they threatened to expose him unless he turned traitor. Redl turned, for eleven years served Russia as a master spy-within-a-spy. The extent of his treason...
Among the 100 papers read at Chicago last week giving details of experiments in ACTH during the past year, there were other evidences of the drug's usefulness in short-term applications. In Savannah ACTH had saved one woman from the bite of a black widow spider and another from the bite of a copperhead snake. Early administration of ACTH in some cases of rheumatic fever had seemed to avert permanent damage to the heart. By & large, however, the Chicago papers proved only that doctors still have much to learn about the new drug. Where long-term administration...
...Spider & Snake. By stimulating the adrenal glands during a crisis, the hormone injections serve to forestall most of the early complications (shock, pain, fever, infection, impairment of kidney function, loss of body fluids) which make burns most dangerous. As the cure progresses, the increased glandular activity helps still further by sustaining appetite and promoting new skin growth. Since burns heal in a relatively short time, the burn victim need not worry about the bad side effects (excessive hair growth, face swelling, skin streaking, etc.) that often follow long-sustained dosages of the drug...