Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ability of a person's heart to endure an operation. To compute the energy index, add the blood pressure while the heart is contracted to the blood pressure while the heart is dilated, and multiply the sum by the pulse rate. A normal person, said Dr. W. Stanley Sykes of Leeds, England, has an energy index of 14,400 millimetres of mercury per minute, or the ability to lift that much mercury by the force of the heart action. If the figure runs up to 45,000 or 50,000, as is possible, it demonstrates to the physician that...
...semi-finals of the University tennis tournament, the only match started yesterday was called on account of darkness. Stanley G. Baskins '35 and John Curtiss 2G, playing for the best three sets out of five, were tied at two sets and five games...
...most surprising upset of the University Tennis Tournament, Stanley G. Haskins '35 eliminated Franklin P. Whitbeck '35, yesterday afternoon in straight sets, 6-1, 6-2. Haskins is a comparative unknown, while Whitbeck was the captain of his Freshman team. This victory for Haskins places him in the semi-final round...
...that Germany is ruled by a "cult of force." Most striking, however, was a British warning to the Reich, said to have been dictated by Sir John Simon after he received Prince Bismarck and hastily inserted in a speech which the Cabinet's Lord President of the Council, Stanley Baldwin, was scheduled to make that night. "Any nation which deliberately prevents such an agreement [as the armament standstill] being reached," cried Mr. Baldwin, "will have no friend in this civilized world!" To reassure France further, he invoked the Locarno Treaty of 1925, negotiated by Britain's Sir Austen...
From Three Rivers, Mich., Chester Werntz ("Chet") Shafer, Grand Diapason of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, successfully sent a letter to Pumper Stanley Jones, advertising copywriter for Gimbel Brothers department store in Manhattan, addressed thus: Mr. Stanley Catmeat Jones, Rags and metal, hides and bones, You can find him in at Gimbel's Writing ads for silver thimbles, If he don't get this it's a pity Way down there in New York City...