Word: used
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ideas of popular music are products of the rough treatment of every-day use and of the intuitive taste common to all peoples. The process is a sort of musical "survival of the fittest." Our jazz is not different in this respect from the folk-music of other peoples, and the qualities which have made it a great popular art form will assure it a lasting place in the musical idiom...
Pennsylvania uses the Harlow offense to a great extent, but its use is modified by the material on the squad. Chizmadia, Connell, and Rainwater are three lucking backs who generate power aplenty. They are all too big to become accomplished spinners so they just lower their heads and ram into the line for their yardage. It's much loss complicated that way, and there are three of them to alternate at the thankless task. So you'll see less spinning from the Quakers than from the Crimson, but more plays on a direct pass from center...
...Then along comes the carpenter whistling something in Norwegian. He was pulling hard in the tiny dinghy. That's the workboat the sailors use when they paint the ship. It usually holds six. In the end we had twenty. . . . The men had to lie on top of each other, and we had to bail all the time...
Within a year, Dr. Putnam hopes to use the magnificent resources of the Institute for large scale clinical work in 1) multiple sclerosis, a mysterious nerve-crippling disease, probably twice as prevalent as infantile paralysis; 2) paralysis agitans, a lingering, incurable shaking palsy; 3) epilepsy (known to modernists as "convulsions"). Meanwhile, within the cheerful green walls of the Institute, turbanned patients continue to wheel their chairs through sunny wards, as 100 experimenters work on problems such as mirror-writing, abnormalities of the senses, hydrocephalus (water-on-the-brain), brain physiology and anatomy...
...connected drum and ink recorder charts patterns. Normal frequency is ten shallow, rippling, regular waves a second. Abnormal brain waves, often running to 25 a second, show up as irregular plateaus, spikes or scallops. Skilled interpreters can read characteristic abnormal wave patterns as indications of approaching epilepsy, can even use them to locate surface brain tumors. Typical epilepsy pattern looks very much like a string of trylons and perispheres...