Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stumped. In heavy snowfall, darkling skies an airplane groped around for Stout Field, Indianapolis, last week. The pilot misjudged the size of the field and overshot it. A snowcovered stump at the end tore away the left wheel and part of the fuselage. Transcontinental Air Transport had to mark up one dead, two injured...
...Comparable to him in Arctic experience and flying skill, but not in navigation, are Bernt Balchen, Commander Byrd's chief pilot in Antarctica and Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, both Norwegians. Last week Riiser-Larsen flew from the whaling ship Norvegia in Antarctic waters and took possession of newly discovered land for Norway across the polar continent from Byrd's quarters...
...Last week appeared Dr. Savas T. Nittis. 34, a member of the department of internal medicine at the University of Michigan medical school, to confute Dr. Hrdlička on the rarity of tetrapodisis. Dr. Nittis, graduate of the University of Athens, is a Greek born on the British-owned island of Cyprus. According to Dr. Nittis, children there always amble about on all fours before they walk upright. Dr. Nittis never saw them go otherwise before he migrated to the U. S. He inquired of other Greeks, of Near Easterners, of Balkanese. Their children did likewise. The apparent rarity...
...birth control a procedure which farmers, the conservative group in the U. S., want to know about? Farm & Fireside (Crowell monthly) last week published answers to a questionnaire. Most farmers, 67% of the 13,431 who answered, approve "legalizing doctors to impart birth control methods to married people who apply jointly." Farm wives were more interested in the matter than husbands...
...recognize a cancer until after the patient's death. The ratio of incorrect diagnoses is 10%. Every suspected case of cancer in a community should be referred to a central cancer bureau such as exist in Buffalo, Boston, Philadelphia. So recommended Dr. James Ewing, Manhattan cancer specialist, last week. Those bureaus have clinical and pathological experts who review a cancer diagnosis before the surgeon operates or a radiologist burns away the excrescent tissues. Thus they can prevent many a useless operation, much needless suffering...