Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would pay 60% of the rates and doctors would receive 50% less money for their services than in the first group); 3) unemployed and relief groups, financed entirely by State, Federal or municipal aid, or by charity, with doctors receiving 75% less money than from the first group. Specific amounts paid to physicians would be determined by the total amount of money available...
When it came to estimating the amount of liquor bought every year by Harvard students, dealers were leary "Suppose I said $70,000?" one man asked. "It might hurt the cause. After all, fellows are here to study, and drinking's only supposed to be a side-line...
Hunter Roy Greenlaw farms 385 acres of George Washington's boyhood home on the banks of the Rappahannock River near Falmouth, Va. When Hunter took over the farm after his father's death nearly five years ago, it didn't amount to much. A gangling stalk of a lad, Hunter stayed in high school and managed the farm on the principles he learned there...
...within nine hours, and all got well. But even though inflammation developed after the intoxicated animals recovered from their drunken stupor, it did not save any of them if bacteria had run rampant even for so short a period as three hours. Dr. Pickrell did not determine the minimal amount of alcohol which would inhibit the body's defense mechanisms...
...conclusion Dr. Pickrell offered the following warning to doctors and drinkers: "If bacteria are aspirated (inhaled) into the lungs during alcoholic intoxication or ... anesthesia, they will grow uninhibited by the defenses of the body during the entire period of unconsciousness . . . regardless of the amount of immunity possessed by the body. . . . They may easily become so numerous that inflammation developing after recovery of consciousness may be unable to overcome them." Whether the popular habit of killing a cold with whiskey contributes to the pneumonia toll he did not say. Nor did he imply that the phrase "alcoholic intoxication" meant anything less...