Word: benign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the rays sterilized them (now they protect themselves by aprons of rubber impregnated with lead), they have been chary of X-raying women who might be gravid. It is not always certain that a woman is pregnant. She may be bloated through hysteria or, more usually, have a benign tumor or a cancer. X-rays can help in the diagnosis. X-rays can also destroy the tumor, or the fetus. Radium is also therapeutically destructive. Just what effect radium, or X-rays in their various doses have on the growing fetus has been an uncertainty among doctors. Few have...
Dance of Death. "Beware the Socialists!" was the gist of a rousing campaign speech which Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin exhaled into the sooty air of Manchester. As usual, Squire Baldwin, benign scion of an old iron-mongering family, seemed comfortably content with himself and the world...
Meanwhile, back and forth through the white front door in S Street, passed many people-friends bearing advice, advisers looking for friendship-Indiana's Watson, long of leg and small of eye; Mellon the benign; square-jawed Borah and mouse-grey Good, North Dakota's boyish Nye, Iowa's heavy-footed Brookhart. They talked of many things to the Next President and went away holding their tongues...
...they must to all men of strong, successful growth, completion and fulfillment came, last week, to Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg. The boy from Potsdam, N. Y., and the St. Paul lawyer of national prestige- are now merged into the benign peace pact man, famed from Potsdam, Germany, to Rochester, Minn., where Mrs. Kellogg used to be shy Miss Clara Cook. As 20 nations signed two Pan-American peace pacts under the chairmanship of Secretary Kellogg (see INTERNATIONAL), and as the U. S. Senate seemed disposed to ratify the Kellogg-Briand pact (see SENATE), it could be fairly said...
Mima. David Belasco is the grand old man of the U.S. theatre. To prove this, he wears a turn-around collar and permits himself to be photographed frequently with a benign facial expression. Like Flo Ziegfeld, George M. Cohan and certain other producers, he is never publicly designated as ridiculous. For the last few weeks, articles have appeared in news-sheets telling how "the Dean of the American Stage is working day and night, transforming his theatre into a veritable Hades," how "Belasco's version of Ferenc Molnar's Mima costs $300,000 to present," and lastly...