Word: nissen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novel's plot concerns Old Cock's attempts to hold on to his job and to keep Arp secure in his Nissen hut, located on the edge of the garbage dump. Among his adversaries are not only the city authorities and the garbage men (who have no respect for a well-conducted dump), but a film company run by a madly implausible American operator named Claygate Corst. Though Corst doesn't have "enough do-re-mi in his pocket to acquire a second-hand mouse-trap," he takes over the decayed movie studios next to the dump...
...about 160 papers she is still Dorothy Dix, but in 20 others the column now appears under her maiden name, Muriel Nissen. The old-school, no-nonsense advice is the same mixture as before. Recently, "A.L." wrote: "My husband and I are both in our fifties ... get along very well except that he doesn't like the radio. When he comes home from work he has dinner, then settles down to read for the evening . . . never takes me any place, we have no company and I am really very lonely." Columnist Agnelli's advice: "Be thankful...
Although my operation was the first successful one in which a whole lung was cut out at one stage, two other pioneers in this field deserve much praise for their courage and success. Rudolph Nissen, then of Berlin but now of New York, in 1931 caused the lung of a child to slough out by operating on her in two stages in such a way as deliberately to shut off the blood to the lung. In 1932 Cameron Haight of the University of Michigan . . . performed a similar operation on another child . . . Both patients recovered . . . The reason for the operation...