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...Christian Scientists gathered for their annual meeting, elected Britain's Lieut. Colonel Robert Ellis Key president of the Mother Church for the coming year. Scientists also heard reports of spiritual healing during the year. Among diseases reported cured by faith: cancer, infantile paralysis, gallstones, asthma, arthritis, nephritis, carious bones, a deformed nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Conventions | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...Taylor picked at random 43 native-born Deaf Smithers ranging in age from two years to past "middle age." His findings: "Not one single carious tooth or filling was found." People with the usual number of cavities who moved to Deaf Smith from other States soon found to their surprise that their teeth stopped decaying. The cavities they had already healed over in a short time, developed "hard glazed floors and surfaces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Deaf Smith's Perfect Teeth | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...present generation of U. S. Youth an unpromising lot. From Life Extension Institute, which had examined 100,000 young men, it learned that 75% suffer from "some sort of health defect." Its own Medical Committee, sampling, turned up 33% with diseased tonsils, 34% with defective vision, 50% with carious teeth. Blamed for this condition was Depression, which curtailed free medical care, recreational facilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: 16-to-24 | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

Most students have already discovered that the Advocate is the carious publication of Harvard College, the CRIMSON the news publication, and the Lampoon the humorous publication. Others have come and gone from time to time, but these three are the generally recognized old-timers...

Author: By John A. Carley, | Title: Lampoon, Oldest Comic in America, Forefather of Life, Invites One and All to Mt. Auburn St. | 10/10/1935 | See Source »

...then called of this block of stores. Of course, the problem of residue is one of the regular ones of the janitorial career, but rarely does it approach the dimensions of a crisis, still more rarely of a Crisis. I had successfully disposed of the waste products of the carious tailoring establishments, smoke shops, and lunchrooms which occupy the building. Then suddenly it came...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/6/1928 | See Source »

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