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...popped Dr. S. Spafford Ackerly of Louisville, famed among neurologists and psychiatrists for his post-operative treatment of a woman, who, despite an excision of a big chunk of her brain, remained placid and intelligent (TIME, May 27, 1935). Exulted bold Dr. Ackerly...
...small piece of the Grecian peninsula where it attaches to Europe proper, in the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea. When Philip was assassinated it had tripled its size, included Paeonia, the coast of Thrace down to the Hellespont, the islands of Samothrace and Lemnos, and a chunk of Thessaly. The people of Macedon were peasants, of purer Nordic blood than the Athenians, Greek in language, and very nearly Greek in sympathies...
...Wyoming's Big Horn Basin one day last year a young laborer attached to a paleontological expedition from Princeton University dug out a chunk of fine-grained, greenish-grey sandstone. He could see hat this hard matrix contained fossil fragments, but the bones were so small that he tossed it aside. On second thought he picked it up again, handed it to Expedition Leader Glenn Lowell Jepsen. Red-laired, laconic Paleontologist Jepsen recognized at a glance that the fossil might be important. He cut the sandstone into three pieces, sent them to a skilled preparator named Albert Thomson...
...chunk out of the market." He quoted...
took another chunk." the witness related...