ADVENTURES IN LITERATURE
MUSICAL NUMBERS
"A" BEFORE "E"
CELEBRATED ON THEIR BIRTHDAYS
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
200
'One adventure of these 2 Twain boys: attempting to cure warts with a dead cat out in the cemetery at midnight'
Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer
200
'The Commodores:
"____ Times A Lady"'
Three
200
'A radio antenna'
an aerial
200
'National Inventors Day, February 11'
Thomas Edison
200
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands on a stage.) W.T.G. Morton made history here in Mass General's surgical amphitheatre. On October 14, 1886 he performed the first public successful surgery using this anesthetic'
ether
400
'The epilogue of this novel says, "I have now told the singular, but veracious story of the opera ghost"'
Phantom of the Opera
400
'Barenaked Ladies:
"____ Week"'
One
400
'"I'm glad I met ya", this company providing medical insurance to more than 19 million Americans'
Aetna
400
'International Nurses Day, May 12'
(Florence) Nightingale
400
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in front of a piece of apparatus.) Massachusetts General is the only place where PET scanning and this imaging use one machine; the combination in 3-D images gives information faster in brain cancer patients, minimizing the time between detection and treatment'
MRI
600
'Actually the third book in the series, this kids' classic recounts the Ingalls family's move to Kansas'
Little House on the Prairie
600
'The Searchers:
"Love Potion Number ____"'
Nine
600
'For its 75th anniversary, it is offering flights between Dublin & Boston for as low as 199 euros'
Aer Lingus
600
'Arbor Day in California, March 7'
Luther Burbank
600
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in front of another apparatus.) A device that uses microchips to detect one cancer cell in a billion may supersede this technique of taking tissue samples from living patients and may lead to finding cancers before tumors form'
a biopsy
800
'This thriller by Richard P. Hendrick is about a mutiny aboard the USS Alabama, a nuclear submarine'
Crimson Tide
800
'The White Stripes:
"____ Nation Army"'
Seven
800
'Per Virgil, he "was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores"'
Aeneas
800
'American Painters Day, February 3'
Norman Rockwell
800
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew is in front of another piece of apparatus.) Massachusetts General is one of the first hospitals to make genetic testing standard in cancer treatment. Robotics allow the processing of up to 96 samples at once so doctors can immediately target patients with these changes in DNA sequence'
mutations
1000
'Almost 60, John Steinbeck set out in search of America with his dog & chronicled the adventure in this book'
Travels with Charlie
1000
'The Vogues:
"____ O'Clock World"'
Five
1000
'It's the 7-letter name for this traffic beater; too bad it never really got off the ground with the public'
the aerocar
1000
'Peter Pan Day, May 9'
J.M. Barrie
1000
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands before another apparatus.) To spare healthy tissues while treating tumors Massachusetts General uses a state-of-the-art cyclotron to deliver radiation; beams of these particles: hydrogen atoms whose electrons have been removed'
protons
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