Word: spooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Editor Lawrence Reynolds of the American Journal of Roentgenology he sent a picture of his forefinger and advice to colleagues that they use a long-handled wooden spoon to touch patients whom they examine by x-rays...
...civilization. Today she weighs 70 lb., is 3 ft. high, has the mind of a 12-year-old, will never be much wiser. Like any well-reared girl Meshie brushes her teeth and showers when she gets up. Then she eats a morning breakfast of bananas & cream, using a spoon and holding the tin dish between her leg-paws. For luncheon and dinner she prefers veal, chicken, steak, refuses lamb, pork or fish. Affectionate, she likes to pick choice bits from her dish, offer them to Dr. Raven. Nights she sleeps in a cage. Her daily chore is to help...
...pale young people who drink sherry at little tables and decide the latest vogues in art were all finished with surrealism years ago. Surrealism may be described as painting the facts of dreams. Example: A little man with a head on which cabbages grow, carrying a huge spoon across a rocky mountain, all painted in meticulous mid-Victorian detail. Month ago a U.S. surrealist named Peter Blume won first prize ($1,500) at the Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh with his South of Scranton (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week a still abler Parisian surrealist named Salvador Dali arrived in Manhattan...
While all this was going on, Prisoner Hauptmann managed to steal a pewter spoon from his food tray, flatten its bowl, grind it razor-sharp, make a hooked scalpel of its handle. His jailers thought the taciturn German had planned to cut his throat or wrists one night, bleed to death, close the case in his own fashion...
...this early paternalism frighten you or even allow you to feel that Harvard will do your thinking for you. These first few days contain much spoon feeding, used in an effort to make the transition from school to college as easy as possible. Within the next few weeks that nursing system will stop as abruptly as it began and you will be left entirely upon your own, with only the guiding hand of an extremely busy adviser to help you. It is up to you in these first few weeks to make this year what it is. First hour examinations...