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Word: burrs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Michigan Hospital at Ann Arbor, Virgil Bailey. 30. farmer, last week realized what an uncommonly deep breath he had taken five years before. At that time he had inhaled while in a dental chair. The dentist was changing a burr in his tooth drill. The burr slipped from the dentist's fingers, disappeared. The dentist surmised that it fell in some fold of his or Virgil Bailey's clothes, hunted no further. But Virgil Bailey had inhaled the burr. Lately deep-breathing Mr. Bailey experienced chest pains. X-rays showed the burr in the lower lobe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Burry Lung | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

...Billman. Hackley School, Tarrytown, N. Y.; H. L. Bogart, The Phillips Exeter Academy; J. A. Bovey, Jr., Blake School Minneapolis, Minn.; E. F. Bowditch, Milton Academy; J. M. Boyd, Kent School, Kent. Conn; E. L. Brainard. Arlington High School; J. Q. Burack, Brockton High School; F. H. Burr, Noble and Greenough School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONORS IN BOARD EXAMINATIONS GO TO 132 FRESHMEN | 12/17/1931 | See Source »

Construction work for the new edifice, made possible by an $800,000 fund raised by alumni, under the direction of Allston Burr '89, is in the hands of the Hegeman Harris Company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Architects To Publish Plans of Memorial Chapel December 10 | 12/3/1931 | See Source »

...Coronation ritual proceeded Sultana Helen made her responses with a soft Scottish burr. At last, with the Lesser (female) Crown of Johore firmly planted on her Nordic head, she rode with swart Sultan Sir Ibrahim triumphantly around Johore Bahru, received the abject homage of its groveling, grinning populace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOHORE: Scottish Sultana | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...athletes- for collecting more major sport letters (13) than any other Harvard athlete in history, and to tie another-for finishing his course (if he gets four A's this year) with a record of 16 A's, one B. This year he won the $750 Francis Burr scholarship which goes to Harvard's best student athlete. He tried to persuade authorities to give the money to someone else. When they refused, Wood took the scholarship, gave it to a student athlete who needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 23, 1931 | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

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