Word: uprights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...named James C. Barton could be found at the street address in Vancouver given by TIME'S original letter writer. If, in his tirade against the U. S. he purposely impersonated James C. Barton, upright and honorable Canadian customs official, let him apologize.-ED. Thymol in Germany...
...small outrigger canoe he made the 600-mile voyage from Tahiti to Manukura, his native island, where willing hands hid him. heads were put together to plan his escape, with his wife and child, to a safe refuge. Just as everything was ready, the unattractively upright French Administrator got wind of the plot. Thinking Terangi had already left the island, he put off to sea after him. Not many hours later, the hurricane...
...seat in the House, makes valuable new contacts in Megapolis. Most immediately valuable is Banker Littenham. who lets his beautiful, ambitious daughter Mary become Caridius' secretary, lets Caridius in on some easy money. Banker Littenham. like all his fellow-characters, is according to his lights extremely upright: "He never entered any major financial operation without resorting to prayer, very earnest sincere prayer. He explained to God what he was going to do. And by the time he could make the deity understand it, he himself had a comprehensive view of the whole matter...
...alter the cerebral blood pressure, remove the spasmodic stimulus. ¶ Dr. Donald Anderson Laird, Colgate's well-publicized authority on sleep, also had a report to make last week on the effect of posture on blood distribution. Dr. Laird thought that, although mankind was benefited by acquiring the upright position, there were some disadvantages. In erect man the blood tends to collect in the abdominal pool, which may cause a slight blood deficiency in the brain. Dr. Laird tested, for proficiency in mental arithmetic, six students with their heads a foot lower than their feet. In this position they...
...baby, a healthy 7 lb. boy, was removed, washed, footprinted for identification. When Editor Pooley shuffled through the results of the morning's work, he immediately pounced on the Caesarean pictures as most newsworthy. Well he knew that if he published them many a shocked busybody and upright citizen would berate him soundly. But he also knew that the pictures would be exciting news to almost all his readers, including the busybodies. Forthwith, Newsman Pooley splashed over the first page of his second section what were, so far as he knew, the first photographs of a Caesarean section ever...