Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, long ago assigned the infantile paralysis problem to himself. He announced that what he suspected is almost certainly true?the virus of the disease gets into the system through the mucous membranes of the nose and upper throat...
Ptosis is an ugly ailment of the upper eyelids. The nerves and muscles which keep the lids rolled up, except during winking, blinking and sleeping, are paralyzed by heredity, disease, poison, or hysteria. Ptosis is not often curable...
...Pennsylvania State College of Optometry, pretended that he had ptosis, to demonstrate to a meeting of the American Academy of Optometry a new lid prop he had devised. To the nosepiece of his spectacles he had soldered two pieces of fine, stiff gold wire, bent to fit the upper curves of the eye sockets, forming non-irritating, comfortable hangers on which Dr. Neill's lids hung like little coats...
...next afternoon. Motor cars are set out into the up country hoping snow will fly in New Hampshire. In the Middle West small, angular cards with family crests announce small dances, big dinners. A special train slips out of the South Station and a saxaphone spills from an upper berth. It is the Christmas season...
...working on experiments at Roswell, N. Mex. under patronage of the Smithsonian Institution and a Guggenheim fund. His magnum opus is a proposed turbine rocket ship by which the exploding gases will drive propellers while the ship is in lower atmospheres, change to direct rocket action in the upper strata where propellers lose efficiency...