Word: appendix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectacles. Steward Schwerdtfeger grasped Mrs. William Buckler by one foot just as she was going over the rail. In the ship's hospital Dr. Thomas Fister was sent spinning with bottles, instruments, in water up to his knees, staggered back to aid the engine-room storekeeper, whose appendix he had just removed. Paul van Zeeland, former Premier of Belgium, in his cabin with his wife and four children, was knocked unconscious. A kettle of boiling water and grease engulfed Fred Stover, chief butcher. Mrs. Tatiana Sztybel, refugee from the siege of Warsaw, was hurled against a wall like...
...travel films and Walt Disney cartoons, got into a discussion over whether icebergs should be called "he" or "she." On Saturday His Majesty's Surgeon Captain Henry Ellis Yeo White and the Empress' Dr. Joseph Maxwell made an emergency trip to the Glasgow, took out the appendix of a seaman...
Much of Crisis is thus devoted to shots of urchins playing in summer camps, Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria saying "Thank you" to Czech benefactors, orators addressing crowds. Nonetheless, pieced together with considerable skill and photographically first-rate, the picture is a reasonably coherent photographic appendix to last summer's headlines. Effective sequence: Czech soldiers lugging cannon up a mountainside for the defense that was never undertaken...
Danny Endweiss, Yale's brilliant 130-point diver, is still out with an appendix operation; Ed Gibson, Navy leaper who has also cracked 130, is unable to enter, and Army's Crandall, another crackerjack diver, probably will not be able to compete. Thus, Rusty has the best chance, of the Harvard delegation, of bringing home the bacon...
...Last week Mr. Dies was rushed to hospital, relieved of a gangrenous appendix...