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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Either operation exposes the gland so that the surgeon can enucleate it with his fingernail or blunt scissors. The operation requires the best of skill and asepsis. Infection can cause more trouble than hypertrophy. Because the patients are usually elderly men whom ether anesthesia would make susceptible to pneumonia, surgeons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Great Men's Weakness | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

In St. Louis one Sam Lehrer was held up by a Negro thug who, finding no money, clipped off a seven-inch length from Lehrer's beard, departed saying: "I shall sell this for a wig."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Grandmother Brown (Maria Dean Culver) was born in Athens, Ohio, in 1827. John Quincy Adams was President. Grandmother Brown's forbearers were old Massachusetts stock who had moved west after the Revolution. She married one Daniel Brown, set up house with him in Amesville, Ohio, where he ran a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brown Study | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Grandma Brown's last baby (the author's husband) was born when she was nearly 43, and her hair had turned gray. When their progeny grew up and left home. Grandma and Dan'l began to go places and do things: "in '93, like everybody else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brown Study | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

When Dan'l died in 1906, Grandma mourned him, then went on her travels. She visited her scattered family. She saw the sights of Washington. She went up Lookout Mountain and had dinner there.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brown Study | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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