Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While in Japan, Dr. Rowland will work under the guidance of the Institute for Artistic Research at the Imperial University of Tokio, which is the headquarters for the work which is being carried on by the Japanese Government in discovering and preserving ancient works of art on the Islands...
...trailed up off the Thames to settle over the city. St. Paul's rolled up in the distance, the Bridge stood like ghostly battlements, and the finger of St. Martin's in the Fields was an old woman in an old torn veil. It was quiet end ancient and very...
...every door of ancient dirt reopened...
...takes great kudos. Wrote he: ''A large per cent of the deaths of newborn babies are caused by pneumonia developing in undilated areas of the lungs, scientists have learned. The lungs are not fully dilated by the first cry, or for many hours or even days after birth. The ancient practice of making a child cry several times a day is often ineffective in over coming atelectasis (imperfect expansion of the lungs at birth). The old barbarous and often ineffective methods of resuscitating the newborn by swinging, spanking and dipping in cold water are being replaced by inhalation of carbon...
...Disease. Xenophon, ancient Greek general, noted that many of his men had sore mouths and foul breaths. World War troops had the same. Dr. H. Jean Vincent discovered the cause long before the War when he was a French army surgeon with Colonial troops in Africa. Although Dr. Hugo Karl Plaut of Hamburg two years earlier (in 1894) reported the same cause, credit for discovery goes to Dr. Vincent. The disease is called variously Vincent's angina, trench mouth, ulcerated stomatitis, necrotic gingivitis. Two germs, which may be variant forms of the same microorganism, are always associated with trench...