Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most Princetonians in the Late Twenties headed for Wall Street or the Harvard Law School. Accordingly, Red appeared at the Law School in 1932, where in spite of high marks, he found that the law did not quite suit him. From glimpses of his father's New York office he had concluded that the law was too mechanical and abstract, and that he wanted to work in something more personal. Soon he switched to the Episocopal Theological Seminary...
...victims, so long shunted into isolation or secret shame by society's ancient fear of the disease, are now coming forward voluntarily to disclose their ailment and seek treatment. Doctors, missionaries, social workers and others who have labored for years against leprosy hoped they had finally dented the wall of rejection and abhorrence that has forced most leprosy victims to live a stigmatized life...
...surgery. Dr. Paul M. Zoll, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, reported that he and his associates had stopped fibrillation and restored the normal beat in four cases by applying heavy currents (up to 720 volts) to the patient through two copper electrodes held against the chest wall. Heretofore, fibrillation has been stopped only by applying the current directly to the heart, requiring a time-consuming chest incision...
...until Sickles was 93 that his troubles began to hem him in. He had lost $4,000,000 on Wall Street, and the sad fact was that he was $28,000 short in his accounts with the New York State Monuments Commission, which he headed. When eviction threatened, he hung three American flags out of his Fifth Avenue window and awaited the sheriff. He died broke at 95, with little but his medals and a fame that already belonged to another age. He may not have been the ideal leader of a boys' club or the neighborhood Cub troop...
Pillar of Learning. In Garber, Okla., the editors of the Free Press, who had moved to a new office, apologized for a rash of misspellings in recent editions of the newspaper: "Please excuse. Most of the words we use frequently and cannot spell are written correctly on the wall in our old location...