Word: alls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Britain may take good heart from the American Civil War when all the heroism of the South could not redeem their cause from the stain of slavery, just as all the courage and skill, which the Germans show in war, will not free them from the reproach of Naziism with...
The saliva of all these animals, said the dentists, "was notable for low bacterial count in comparison with man's." Only animal with a mouth bad enough to be nearly human : "a 30-year-old baboon with an extremely dirty mouth from which many teeth were missing."
Ears and Stomach. "Pilots suffer more frequently from occupational diseases of . . . [the ear] than from all other occupational diseases combined." Conditions of flight damaging the ear: 1) "changes of atmospheric pressure during ascent and descent"; 2) harsh, monotonous propeller and exhaust noises, which airplane manufacturers are unable to muffle. A...
Droning noises may not only destroy the auditory nerve, but also reduce the flow of saliva and gastric juices. Noise, fear, and changing atmospheric pressure (lowered pressure expands intestinal gases, may cause violent cramps) all add up to a second major occupational disease of fliers: "gastric disturbances."
Nothing so infuriates a minister named Jones as being called "Reverend Jones." Reverend is an adjective, not a title. If a parson is not a doctor (D.D. or Ph.D.), he is, like other men, a mister.* Last week the Ministerial Association of Lansing, Mich, formally resolved that "in addressing one...