Word: ated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decade Dr. Baer pondered the coincidence. Medieval doctors, he knew, used to, apply maggots to festering sores, a gross, unlearned practice long abandoned. But maggots are scavengers of the offal they live in. Might it not be that the maggots in his War cases ate up the infected tissue debris, thus preventing blood poisoning? And might they not have secreted something which stimulated the growth of healthy tissue...
...female grew hungry, tried to get out. The monkey mob mauled them, chased them back. Then in the shadow of his hiding place, George killed his stolen female, ignominiously. Monkey moralists were satisfied. The wife-stealer was allowed to come out unharmed. The king, still uninterested, sat by, blinked, ate a peanut...
...Hearst ranch in San Simeon, Calif. (TIME, Sept. 30, 1929). There he dined nightly with the Anglophobe, addressed him gently of England, her geniality, her pacifism, her friendliness to the U. S. When Mr. Churchill felt that the Anglophobe was at last quieted, he journeyed to Manhattan, ate a slice of Laborite Ramsay MacDonald's birthday cake, took ship for home. The world took scant heed...
...husband Tom, fussy fat clerk in an English provincial town, loved her in his own way, realized vaguely she was of finer mould than he. Grace's only child had been born dead, she could never have another. She had almost given up expecting anything to happen. She ate too many chocolates, went too often to the cinema. Then one day she met young Hugh Miller, nephew of Tom's boss. Hugh was an aristocrat who did everything well, even wandering. They met only a few times. He thought she was queer but rather nice, soon forgot...
...board Vincent Astor's big Nourmahal, the America's Cup Committee ate and drank a good dinner, then sat down to decide the business once and for all. They picked Enterprise, skippered by Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, to defend the cup against Shamrock V. It was the decision everyone had expected, but they had not expected it so soon. After beating Weetamoe in light airs, Enterprise established herself by beating her again next day in the second of the final official trials, in a high sea and a racing wind. Yankee, racing Whirlwind, made better time than Enterprise that...