Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patient usually has heart disease or may have recently undergone a major operation. A blood clot (thrombus) breaks loose from its anchorage, floats with the blood stream until it gets stuck in an artery. Most frequent sites of this plugging are the common femoral artery in the groin (39%) and the common iliac artery in the lower abdomen (15%). Embolus here stops circulation in the entire leg and foot. Other frequent sites for emboli are the brachial artery in the elbow, affecting the forearm and hand; the popliteal (10%), affecting the lower leg and foot; the aorta, affecting the entire...
...Chicago classroom, opened a course on "Critical Moments in the History of the U. S. from 1763 to 1921." On the Wilhelmstrasse Ambassador Dodd likes to corner Adolf Hitler, lecture him in fluent German on the democratic ideas of his friend Woodrow Wilson. On the Midway Professor Dodd stuck to his lectern, shushed questions about Germany by observing: "I am not entirely free to speak. . . . But if men knew their history, they certainly would not do a great many things they...
Sued for Divorce. Charles Ponzi, 54, celebrated Boston swindler, now a Roman tourist guide; by Mrs. Rose Ponzi whom he married in 1918; in Cambridge, Mass. Grounds: he had served "more than five years" (1922-34) in prison. Explained she: "When he was down . . . I stuck...
...Soviet's present suppression of free speech and freedom of the press, spying upon citizens' mail and failure to provide either universal suffrage or secrecy of the ballot. Chairman of the Soviet committee which roughed out the tentative Constitution is Joseph Stalin and into it the Dictator stuck a more imposing status for Georgia in the Caucasus, where he was born. Georgia, when all goes as the Dictator directs next November, will become the Autonomous Federated Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia...
Founder Thomas did not live to see his home town renamed Thomaston, but he left a good business and an honorable tradition to Seth Thomas II and other sons, who passed them on to Seth Thomas III and finally to Seth Thomas IV. The Thomases stuck to quality products, but their line broadened to include nearly everything from delicate chronometers to the world's biggest clock, installed in 1924 in Colgate-Palmolive-Peet's Jersey City plant for the benefit of commuters across the Hudson River. Seth Thomas IV was president of his family concern from 1915 until...