Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Women are stricken later in life than men. A first attack kills them more often than it does men. But, if a woman survives such a heart attack, she may expect to live three years longer than a man similarly stricken and surviving. Dr. Willius finds it "difficult to understand the reasons for the great discrepancy in incidence of coronary thrombosis between the two sexes. After a critical analysis of the known factors, one is obliged to seek a possible explanation in the presumable superior biologic heritage of the female...
They might not understand a burning- glass. They might not understand the sun itself. It's knowing what to do with things that counts...
...understand that the tribunal has to-day finished its public sittings and will therefore proceed at once to consider its report. Before, however, the report is known and without any regard to what it may contain, I feel it is my duty, for reasons I will state, to send you my resignation from the Government...
...purpura is the injection of water moccasin venom. The developers of this remedy, Manhattan's Drs. Samuel M. Peck, Nathan Rosenthal and Lowell A. Erf, advise a long series of hypodermic injections of dilute venom into the loose space between the skin and muscles. They admittedly do not understand the why or wherefore of their treatment. They do know that "it apparently has been of value in 22 of the 34 cases in which it has been used." Just as inexplicable but more successful were the results which Philadelphia's Drs. Harry Lowenburg and Theodore M. Ginsburg attained...
...Chicago it may be difficult or impossible for many of our Eastern stockholders to attend this meeting because of distances involved. Therefore, I cordially invite you, or your duly accredited representative, to meet with me ... on Tuesday, May 26th, at the New York offices of the Company. . . . Please understand that this will be a wholly informal meeting- simply for the purpose of acquainting you more thoroughly with some of the major subjects which, a week later, will be submitted and officially acted upon at the Stockholders' Meeting in Chicago." Signed to this startling invitation was the name of Walter...