Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied motto in this war: Waste No Lives. In World War I, Canada put 595,441 men under arms, sent 418,052 overseas, lost 62,594 dead, in a total of 218,433 casualties. This time the emphasis for Canada will be on airmen, not infantry and artillery. Last week the first squadron of the new Canadian Air Force to see action was selected. Nucleus: the City of Toronto Squadron, supplemented by pilots from east and west Canada. Commander: Squadron Leader Wilbur Van Vliet, 35, of Winnipeg, famed footballer...
...Last week Magistrate J. L. Barnhill of Halifax announced that he had been "very much put out" to hear, the very night the troopships left Halifax, a broadcast from Germany announcing that the ships had left, and how many. After the ships' safe arrival, he gave suspended two-year jail sentences to three women who pleaded guilty to writing indiscreet letters to persons in the U. S. about ship movements at Halifax...
...rate of speed. But Dr. Althausen questioned this belief, set to work on the hunch that the rate of speed of sugar absorption depends directly upon the amount of thyroxin produced by the thyroid gland. Thus, hyperthyroids would absorb sugars at a higher rate of speed than diabetics. Last week, he reported a simple new sugar-timing test which he has used successfully on 250 patients. For this long-awaited achievement, he was promptly awarded the Van Meter Prize of $300 by the American Association for the Study of Goiter...
...base of the brain, just above the brain stem, is a small patch of grey matter. Only one three-hundredth part of the total brain, the hypothalamus is concertmaster in the symphony of human behavior. Last week, in Manhattan, noted neurologists and psychiatrists from all sections of the U. S. met at the 20th annual convention of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease. For two days they did nothing but discuss, in the light of latest research, the orchestral effects of the hypothalamus, and pay tribute to the pioneer work of Chicago Neurologist Stephen Walter Ranson...
...Last week the cat finally jumped out of the bag. In the Episcopal Hospital, Dr. Muncaster successfully removed a cataract from the eye of a 95-year-old patient. Enterprising reporters, seeing a good story, asked Dr. Muncaster his age. As usual, he refused. The reporters prodded Dr. Muncaster's old cronies, paged through medical directories. The result was a good 20 years more than anyone had suspected: age 82. In that operation patient and doctor totaled 177 years...