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...Boston orthopedist, goes chiropractors one better by actually hanging patients until he cures them of pains in the neck, shoulder, arms, heart. The principle of his treatment is precisely that of chiropractors. By stretching necks and pulling vertebrae apart, he releases pressure on nerves branching out of the spine and thereby removes the causes of aches and pains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pain in the Neck | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...ostrich egg may be considered a single living cell. Big, too, is a single nerve cell which runs along an elephant's spine. The structure of these monster cells is practically the same as a microscopic cell in a rabbit's liver, of which some 980 are required to span one inch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mitochondria | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...Lord! this business doth chill my spine and I did wish the over with it lest I show my heart over much. Indeed, methinks the actor Hampden did employ the grand manner too much and unlike the little leaf which a breath of wind doth cause to fall, he did go down more like a log. But all in all this play did bring me great pleasure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 1/31/1936 | See Source »

Other than this stress on discipline, the suggestions in the Crimson seem to me quite sound. Also they do not seem in the least, in other matters, to disagree with Mr. Munroe. But the return of Hour Examinations, and Quizzes, and Attendance, sends a cold shiver down my spine, and completely cclipses, for me, any value there may have been in the rest of your article. R. S. Fletcher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/22/1936 | See Source »

...this point in the interview, a smile spread over Sally's face and rapidly developed into a bewitching chuckle. She then rose and glided gracefully across the floor to the accompaniment of electric shivers which spiraled up the interviewer's spine. Producing a collection of photographs from a cabinet, she selected one and returned to her seat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sally Rand Enjoyed Sitting in John Harvard's Lap Even Though Her Relations With Harvard Men Are Platonic | 9/27/1935 | See Source »

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