Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the American Journal of Digestive Diseases brought into the open a bitter dispute of long standing between physicians and surgeons. Ulcers of the stomach, most doctors believe, are caused by too much acid in the digestive juices. Too much acid corrodes the stomach lining at sensitive points, leaving a raw wound. But why some people have a constant gush of acid, instead of a gentle trickle at mealtime, is a mystery to doctors. Certain it is that tobacco and alcohol do a delicate stomach no good. Many authorities hold that ulcers are the fruits of temperament, for only...
Angels Over Broadway (Columbia). In spite of the fabulous salary he draws as a screen writer (some $6,000 weekly) balding Ben Hecht spends many of his expensive words on acid comments about Hollywood moviemakers. Possibly as protest, he and his sidekick, Playwright Charles MacArthur, took four flings at independent movie production, scored one bull's-eye with The Scoundrel, eventually quit. This year, Columbia gave Hecht $260,000 worth of Hollywood backing with which he wrote, produced, directed Angels Over Broadway, another of his preoccupations with the regeneration of moral strays who have felt the cooling shadow...
MacKinney seems to be fitting into the blocking back spot very nicely, but only a game can provide the acid test. Given a little more confidence in its blocking ability under MacKinney's leadership, the Harvard team has a good chance to find itself and put on a strong offensive display against Princeton. The Tigers have always been Dick Harlow's favorite opponents, and this Crimson eleven can match the 1940 Tigers...
Stomach Ulcers. An ulcer is a sore on the stomach wall, always accompanied by an excessive flow of hydrochloric acid. To the question "Why ulcers?" Dr. Benmosché frankly answers: "We don't know." Most doctors blame alcohol, cigarets and nerves...
...soil-but not so far back as to avoid rural electrification. To this thesis Kaufman & Hart now devote their practiced wits. Ernest Truex plays the part of a little man who buys a Pennsylvania farm where Washington supposedly bedded (actually it turns out to have been Benedict Arnold). The acid Jean Dixon is his wife, forced among other pastoral ordeals to watch a well-drilling operation strike successive layers of mud and eventually a cemetery ("Anyone we know?" she cries...