Word: spiller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stories, of which there are many in both prose and veree--Hiawatha's Bowling, Joe Slow, the Boy Inventor. The Little Girl and the Kind Ogre, Jack the Giant Spiller, How Brother Rabbit Cleared the Yard, Archibald and the Surly Dragon, The Naughty Boy and the Vengeful Peauut--are all neat little yarns in themselves, and at the same time sly parodies of the plots, characters, and narrative manner of fairy tales...
Harvard Bates A. G. Rogers, l.f. s.s., (Capt.) Cogan Campbell, 1b. 2b., Young Gordon, r.f. c.f., Menneally Jenkins (Capt.), s.s. 3b., Daker Hammond, 2b. 1b., Jordan Todd, c.f. l.f., Rowe Hill, 3b. r.f., Spiller Cheek, c. c., Moulton Brown, p. p., Price...
...pronouncement last week from two neurosurgeons of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, stated that the pain, if not the doom of cancer, can be mitigated by an operation. The surgeons are William G. Spiller and Charles H. Frazier. Their operation-chordotomy- severs the sensory nerves in the spinal column. It is performed in cases where the pain is too great for drugs to relieve...
...Spiller and Frazier published the results of eight operations, of which six successfully ended pain. In two cases, some pain fibres escaped the knife. Said Surgeon Spiller: "It requires on the part of the operator a visualization of the microscopic anatomy of the cord and a realization that a slight misplacement of the incision may cause motor-paralysis of one or both of the lower limbs...
...Spiller was hit almost at ease, in the first and second innings, the University gathering two singles a two-bagger, two three-baggers, and a home run for eleven tallies. In the fourth inning he settled down and, with the exception of Jenkins homer, limited the University to two singles...