Word: wright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's Bazaar came into the stretch a length ahead of the field in the Saranac Handicap. With a ghostlike rush, Jockey Wayne Wright brought Kievex up on the outside of the track, beat Bazaar to the wire by a head. Three days later, Colonel Bradley was consoled when Boxthorn won the Saratoga Special...
...Wright (33 years) and Dr. Moffat (27 years) are too young and diffident to draw far-reaching conclusions from their research. They say categorically...
Some of the heaviest of smokers, during the experiments, occasionally grew deathly sick, at times fainted. Drs. Wright and Moffat reasoned that ordinarily those smokers took only a few puffs of a cigaret. before throwing it away, whereas in the experiments, they continued smoking until almost all the cigaret was gone. Concluded Drs. Wright and Moffat...
According to Researchers Wright & Moffat, the desire for "another smoke" is due to: "1) the wish for the soothing, quieting effect of the smoke, which increases with the cessation of the effects of the previous cigaret, and 2) the nervous desire to do something with one's hands...
Significance of Drs. Wright and Moffat's research is that it supplies additional evidence that smoking increases the damage to the tissues of a person whose blood circulation is impaired. Diseases which smokers must guard against include angina pectoris, thrombo-angiitis obliterans. arteriosclerosis. But, cheerfully add the researchers, they have no whit of evidence that smoking causes such diseases...