Word: allaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week his journalistic enemy, El Imparcial, called for a medical bulletin to allay "public anxiety." Don Tinto issued a political bulletin. He announced his temporary retirement on account of bronchitis and grippe, by law turned over his powers to Minister of the Interior Méndez...
...today's living war victims: "I could debate with great emotion who is responsible for their plight. That is not the question. Its answer could not allay the immeasurable, stark tragedy to tens of millions of innocent men, women and children...
Losing home-grown teeth and getting store ones is distressing to sensitive people. They chiefly dread 1 ) encountering friends and business associates while they are in toothless condition; 2) having their new teeth change their facial appearance. Nowadays good dentists, with patience and ingenuity, allay such apprehensions. Last week Dr. Oswald M. Dresen of Marquette University Dental School, addressing the American Dental Association convened in Cleveland, observed that many prosthodontists now ask their patients for snapshots. If a patient has no good picture of himself, said Dr. Dresen, the dentist is likely to turn portrait photographer and take some himself...
...does it appear that ether was used in any single hospital in the world to allay the agony of surgical operations prior to the demonstration by Dentist Morton at the Massachusetts General Hospital on Oct. 16, 1846. The very word "anesthesia" sprang into being some few weeks later...