Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most painstaking bit of lurid reporting of the week was Toronto Star Correspondent Pierre van Paassen's reconstruction in Barcelona of how the Citadel of Huesca was captured from the Whites...
...Alchemy of Time would have been used up. Tangora had rapped out 43,000 strokes in 60 minutes. Subtracting 54 errors, he had averaged 135 words a minute, tying the all-time world record. Panting Peters, only two words a minute behind, got up gloomily, prepared to entrain for Toronto, where this week at the Canadian National Exhibition another rival international championship bout is to be held...
Possessively proud of their London Lord Mayor, Vancouverites reluctantly granted Toronto's request for a loan of him next month. But when Seattle in the U. S. asked for the London Lord Mayor, the Vancouver Sim shrieked: "No, no, a thousand times no! The nerve of them! The colossal gall! The effrontery of it. Seattle actually wants Vancouver to send the Lord Mayor of London down there ... so they can have a look at him without coming up to Vancouver...
...floating clot) plugs a main artery which feeds blood to that limb. Competent heart specialists and surgeons generally see such blood-starved limbs too late to save them from gangrene and amputation. Last week, by chance, a Chicago doctor, Geza deTakats, in the American Journal of Surgery, and a Toronto doctor, Donald Walton Gordon Murray, in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, each gave explicit directions for locating such a destructive clot, removing it by surgery, thus saving the limb...
...International with 90,000 members in 1,900 clubs is mostly confined to the U. S. and Canada. Lions International has two clubs in China but is largely a North American affair with 85,000 members, 2,700 clubs. Only Civitan International club outside the U. S. is in Toronto. The Civitans have less than 5,000 members, only 125 clubs. Chief Civitan is Charles Francis Cowdrey Jr., a Fitchburg, Mass. machinery maker...