Word: bugaboos
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...LeMaster, who for 28 years practiced in St. Louis and for almost as long taught dental radiology (Xray technique) at St. Louis University. Some years ago, when dentists generally began to install their own X-ray outfits, Dr. LeMaster's laboratory business fell off. Then the "state medicine" bugaboo came along. Dr. LeMaster decided to get out of dentistry entirely...
...year-old Charles H. Jennings of Garden City, L. I. and Roaring Gap, N. C., most dangerous man in the field. Unlike low-scorers Douglas and Brown, who were playing golf in the 1890s (Brown's mother was the first U. S. women's golf champion), Bugaboo Jennings learned golf late in life. But he had already won the Senior title twice-in 1934 and again last year...
Then there is the threat from Japan, the traditional bugaboo of the American navy. There are rumors that the Japanese are taking time off from the China incident to build four, eight or even twelve super-battleships, and suggestions that we should do the same and keep up with the Joneses. But the Navy admits it has "no definite information" about Japan's building program, and our fleet still has a marked superiority over Nippon's. So long as we maintain that edge, and so long as we hang on to our iron-clad island defense line in the Pacific...
Premier Duplessis' mandate ran for five years from 1936, but so lame was his position by this autumn, that he eagerly seized on the war as an issue whereby he might recoup lost prestige. He raised the eternal French-Canadian bugaboo of conscription for a British-Canadian war, and decreed an election. It was an important contest, for if Maurice Duplessis won, it would mean that a huge French island in Canada was in open opposition to the Federal policy, and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Government might fall. But things went badly for pink-cheeked...
Bombs laden with disease germs, another persistent bugaboo of modern warfare, are shrugged off by bacteriologists. Man, they say, can culture and concentrate disease organisms, but it is hardly likely that he can start epidemics in civil populations unless he reproduces the conditions, many of which are still unknown, which make natural epidemics possible...