Word: two
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...followed. Said Artist Decker: "When a man employs an artist to paint a portrait, it is up to the artist to do his worst, as he sees best. If Cruze wanted some wishy-washy, sloppy, sentimental portrait of himself, he could have had a photograph taken or hired a two-bit painter to do it. I gave him a work of interpretative...
Because the living heart is a generator of electricity, two heart specialists were able to report in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association that the heart is never constant, that there is no normal pulse, that every sensation, thought, emotion, movement changes the heart rate, that the heart is, as might be supposed, quietest during sleep. The men are Dr. Ernst P. Boas,* 38, now practicing privately in Manhattan, and Dr. Morris M. Weiss, 28, now practicing in Louisville, Ky. They made their studies on doctors, nurses, patients in Montefiore Hospital, New York, where...
...trap the heart's action current they would strap two electrodes to the subject's chest, one above the heart's top, the other about six inches lower. From the electrodes ran 60-ft. wires to a "cardiotachometer," which Dr. Boas devised. Vacuum tubes in the cardiotachometer amplified the heart action current which thereupon operated a counting device and a recording pen. The long wires enabled the subject to practice most of his usual occupations. The counter recorded the total number of his heart beats over any desired period (most importantly for study, during sleep...
...shows settings of the Khyber Pass, London, San Francisco, the Sudanese desert. It records the whirr of airplane propellers and another noise which sounds a good deal the same but is only camel-neighing. It contains love scenes, whiskey-drinking, and such lines as ''We are two dots in the loneliness" and "The night by the oasis when I read in your eyes." The cast, especially Gilbert Emery as one of those film detectives who combine social welfare work with their profession, and Lois Moran, act and talk competently and at times with distinction. Somehow they subdue...
...Manhattan, Joie McCarthy, 5, fell 50 feet, lost two teeth, laughed...