Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combed Cleveland with tales of a great shortage of burial ground. Since everyone must die, the salesmen argued, best possible investment would be in the wholesale blocks of new cemetery plots which they were ready to furnish for cash, savings bankbooks or deposits on call at building & loan societies. Catch was that enough speculative cemeteries to bury Cleveland's dead for 200 years to come had already been laid out, but the promoters glibly promised 100% profits in 60 days. Following their trail. Investigator Fritchey discovered that the cemetery racket was cleaning up some $2,000,000 a year...
...esophagoscope and bronchoscope is a small electric light by whose illumination the bronchoscopist can see any foreign body or diseased tissue of windpipe, bronchi or gullet. By means of slim, skillfully jointed tools which fit the bore of the metal tube, the bronchoscopist can usually catch hold of and pull out foreign bodies...
...dictatorship (see p. 20), is the only nation to produce underground rebels with a sense of humor. Their best joke: to distribute an official-looking notice on counterfeit police stationery warning the populace to defend itself against ordinary criminals because all the energies of the police were required to catch political criminals...
...frequency of operations which are followed by infection is a contributing cause. Many women get infections in hospitals when they are not properly isolated-they may be mixed with pneumonia or erysipelas. A small proportion of cases of puerperal infection is of course, unpreventable-women who catch colds or other infectious diseases...
...Crump don't 'low no easy riders here, Mr. Crump won't 'low no easy riders here. I don't care what Mr. Crump don't 'low, I'm gonna bar'l-house anyhow. Mr. Crump can go and catch hisself some...