Word: tennesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subjects for this mural precise Alfred Shriver knew exactly whom he wanted: ten ladies whom he had known and admired from his youth up. Some of them: Mrs. Bruce Gotten, called by the Baltimore Sun "one of the most beautiful women that ever grew up in this city"; Mrs. J. Lee Tailor, who in middle age still had "the most exquisite coloring, with perfect Titian hair and eyes the color of violets"; Mrs. James Brown Potter, who did not marry until she was 38, when the Sun enthused: "The most beautiful violet grown in Richmond was named for her. . Possibly...
...reigning sultan, himself a pretty good dancer of the Wajang-Wong (ancient Balinese national epic). Also in the troupe were nine gamelan musicians with queer gongs and xylophones, a special Balinese cook to home-cook rice and fish, Devi Dja's younger (18) sister Devi Emah with her ten-months-old baby...
...this theory by publishing results of her hearing tests on 1,000 English school children. Middle ear deafness, found Dr. Kerridge, "is about four times as common, on the average, under poor social conditions as it is under good social conditions; in the poorest places ... it may be nearly ten times as common as in a good environment, nearly a quarter of the child population being affected. Climate, housing, and the mixing of children seem to have little effect...
...Brandon Raney of the University of Southern California's medical school reported "a hitherto undescribed surgical procedure relieving attacks of angina pectoris." Eleven patients, said Dr. Raney, underwent this remarkable operation. There were "no deaths, and all ... obtained complete relief . . . from desperate attacks" sometimes occurring as often as ten times...
When such "simple methods" are not enough, the Lancet prescribed one-quarter to two grains of ephedrine sulphate at bedtime, depending on the child's age and bed-wetting capacities. "Tincture of belladonna is useful . . . given in amounts of ten minims [drops] for the younger child, and 15 minims for the older, half an hour before bedtime. The dose is increased weekly by five minims until eneuresis stops...