Word: chokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great majority of us are snowed under by an avalanche of medical journals. Too many doctors choke their offices with unopened magazines 'useful to throw at the cat,' and the only way a busy physician can keep up with his field is to clip and catalogue practical articles. Facts may be said to be buried rather than recorded...
...attract any whifflepoofs lingering beneath us. We hovered over the hole, with rubber bands stretched out in our fingers. As soon as a whifflepoof would thrust his inquiring snout through the hole, we would quickly snare him with a rubber band, encircling his gills with it. He would soon choke, and we were then able to draw him up through the hole...
Into the respectable wholesale drug house of John Wyeth & Bro., Inc. stumbled Fred Barrick last month. Waving an official Government order blank signed by Dr. Anders, he demanded 500 half-grain tablets of morphine sulphate, enough to choke a team of horses. Since Government order blanks are for the personal use of physicians who purchase narcotics wholesale for office use, the druggists promptly called the narcotic squad...
...child gnaws on his rattle or chews his doll, if he crams his mouth with building blocks or paper, don't let him choke, but otherwise leave him alone. The mouth is an "important organ of investigation." Such was the advice Psychiatrist Alexander Reid Martin gave to dentists and public health specialists at a meeting on child dentistry in Manhattan last week. Parents who keep snatching things from their children's mouths not only prevent infants from exercising their jaws, but also cramp the development of personality, for a child's first "satisfactions and pleasures, his first...
...dancing." A good wrestler can lick a jiu-jitsu expert any time, provided the combatants don't wear jackets while fighting, Pat declared. The art of jiu-jitsu is used to teach detectives, army and navy officers, G-men, and policemen how to disarm a man, and the numerous choke holds are the basis of the art. Choke holds cannot be used unless the opponent is wearing a jacket or coat which can be used as a lever to twist across the throat. "Without these jackets, the jiu-jitsu man hasn't a chance with a regular wrestler," Pat declared...