Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chateau gold-plated microphones were installed for the King's first speech. Towns along the St. Lawrence heaped bonfires, decked railway stations. At Callander, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe got his morning coat out of mothballs and the Dionne quintuplets practiced pretty curtsies in preparation for their trip to Toronto to meet King George and Queen Elizabeth. Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir (Author John Buchan) collected a library for Their Majesties, books on Canadian life, political works and novels, including a mystery called Blood Royal...
Last week Chemists Arthur Steinberg & William Redman Brown of Philadelphia's Kensington Hospital for Women proudly set out for Toronto to tell the American Physiological Society about their amazing new discovery: oxalic acid for rapid coagulation of blood. But when the young chemists got to Toronto, they were scientifically hissed & booed. Reason: oxalic acid, a common cleaning fluid and ink remover, is used by physicians in a derivative form to prevent coagulation of blood for transfusions. It was impossible, said the scoffing physiologists for an anticoagulant to produce coagulation...
Undaunted, Drs. Steinberg & Brown invited the meeting to the University of Toronto laboratories where they bled a rabbit. Without oxalic acid the rabbit's blood coagulated in two minutes, 29 seconds. With oxalic acid, the blood coagulated in one minute, 29 seconds. But still the skeptical scientists claimed that oxalic acid was poisonous. Dr. Brown promptly rolled up his sleeve, displayed an arm pockmarked from hundreds of injections, brandished a hypodermic needle. When no one volunteered to give him an injection of the acid, he gave himself a standard dose, thus convinced his timid colleagues that the acid...
...Boston Bruins, National Hockey League champions: the four-week, post-season playoffs for the Stanley Cup, No. 1 prize in professional hockey; defeating the Toronto Maple Leafs in the final series; four games to one. It was their first Stanley Cup victory since...
Boston's Brains became undisputed world hockey champions when they defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 2 to 1, tonight, to take a best-out-of-seven series for the Stanley Cup. The Bruins took four games to one for the Leafs...