Word: twine
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week the Chicago Symphony played the first U. S. work on its list of firstlings. It was a brand-new symphony by Chicago's suave, handsome John Alden Carpenter, who withdrew in 1936 from his family's big twine and awning business, dislikes being called the most eminent U. S. "businessman-composer...
...these three are friends whose arms twine...
Next afternoon, over the dust-deep roads of Walker County, fierce with Alabama's autumn sunshine, 25,000 people went to pay their last respects to "Mr. Will." Jasper's First Methodist Church was roped off-a piece of twine strung from a telephone pole to a soapbox to a fireplug to another telephone pole. Men in overalls and blue denim shirts lined the street. Fans waved under tattered parasols. The loudspeaker brayed a prayer. Sweat-stained hats came off; the crowd's murmur hushed. Children scuffed their feet in the dusty heat...
...rabbits and dogs, held the stumps close with forceps, dribbled the plasma over them from a pipette. Within two minutes, the plasma thickened to a firm jelly which stuck to the nerves and united the stumps. The jelly held for several days, long enough for the growing nerves to twine themselves on to the cut ends, like vines on a trellis. Healing took about ten days. Next step: use of the blood glue on torn human nerves...
Young Dr. Fabing found it impossible to talk to Eugene "because of the numerous small attacks which followed quickly one upon the other." The boy sat vacantly in his office winding spools of twine, fumbling with balls of tinfoil like a kindergarten child. His mental age, Dr. Fabing found, was just where it was when he left school: six years. Dr. Fabing tried giving Eugene daily doses of seven-and-a-half-grain tablets of dilantin sodium, a new treatment for epilepsy developed two years ago by Drs. Hiram Houston Merritt of Harvard and Tracy Putnam, head of Manhattan...