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Atop Montmartre there flourish not only tourists in search of vi- carious pleasure, but also some few who indulge themselves. Last week the learned ethnologist, Professor Charles Fegdal, revealed that these Montmartroise have ever had peculiar tastes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Geophagists | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...Some one has attempted to estimate the number of hours, days months, years, and decades of dental treatment by all the dentists in the United States today that would be necessary to fill the solvable carious teeth of the children of America at the present time. The figures in the estimate are like some of the mathematical calculations of the astronomer?they stagger the imagination. This task is not impossible, but it is as colossal as it is important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dentists | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

...conclusions, and even long - as we did that morning - to join in the grateful pursuit. The dining hall in question will admit of six hundred students all thirsting for knowledge, eating roast beef at the same time. There is a gallery at one end of the hall for carious strangers to survey the wondrous plan; but we got so hungry with watching these youngsters that we did not remain long. Possibly the stealthy creep of prejudice over our judgments may have been the cause of our verdict; but we certainly arrived at the conclusion that our English boys at "Trinity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ENGLISHMAN'S IMPRESSION OF HARVARD. | 3/24/1883 | See Source »

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