Word: penfield
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...epileptics in the U.S. have a better chance of leading normal life than ever before. Such is the optimistic opinion of two top-flight experts in epilepsy: Dr. Wilder Penfield, head of the Montreal Neurological Institute, and Dr. Theodore Charles Erickson of the University of Wisconsin. Last week they published the scientific reasons for this belief in an authoritative text on epilepsy (Epilepsy and Cerebral Localization; C. C. Thomas...
Uses. Last year the State Department dispatched young James Penfield and George West Jr. on the Coast Guard cutter Comanche to establish the first U.S. consulate in Greenland. Through fog to Arsuk Fjord, to Ivigtut and beyond...
Godthaab, capital of South Greenland (population: 700), Penfield and West made their way to the U.S.'s most northerly consulate. They were astonished to find that Greenlanders, with almost 24 hours of sunlight a day during the summer, have daylight saving time...