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People with cleft palates clench their nostrils and arch their tongues in effort to make their enunciation intelligible. Dr. Fitz-Gibbon breaks them of those habits by putting thimbles in their nostrils, guide wires in their mouths. Girls with cleft palates are harder to treat than boys, said he, "because girls are ordinarily protected from the rude mockery of other children. Consequently they are apt to take pride in their funny way of talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dentists | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

Spread before the eyes of the young poets who wish to see is the vista of a world of struggle, of economic and political forces locked in a clench, battling without regard for the Marquis of Queensberry's rules. Miss Rukeyser, in her poem on the Scottsboro case, gives us her view; Hayes, who declares somewhat theatrically that he is a "permanent communist," gives us his in "For People Who Buy in Small Parcels," while James McQuail, who also strikes a pose as an "overpowering conservative," stands pat, with "Tea Time Tales" as his offering to the Tories...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 12/19/1935 | See Source »

...wars asks me to consider that the French firm of Schneider-Crcusot secretly helped to finance Adolf Hitler and then propagandized at home for increased armament to defend La Patric. Don't you think that you are indulging in that fallacy in argumentation known as ignoration of the clench? You maintain-at least Senator Nye does (perhaps you only imply)-that munitions-makers cause wars: you prove only that they sell munitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 27, 1935 | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

...Slavic Languages and Literatures, Emeritus; Birds and Mammals,--Glover M. Allen '01, Associate Professor of Zoology, and Curator of Mammals in the Museum of Comparative Zoology; Insects,--Charles T. Brues, Associate Professor of Economic Entomology, and Associate Curator of Insects in the Museum of Comparative Zoology; Mollusks,--William J. Clench, Lecturer on Zoology, and Curator of Mollusks, Museum of Comparative Zoology; Reptiles,--Arthur Loveridge Associate Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians Museum of Comparative Zoology; Paleontology,--Percy E. Raymond, Professor of Palaeontology, Tutor in the Division of Geological Sciences, and Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twenty Harvard Graduates and Faculty Members Assist in Compiling Revised Second Edition of Webster Dictionary | 2/6/1935 | See Source »

...infant's body; or fasten a string of lettered beads or stamped metal tag to the child's neck and mother's wrist; or both. Registering a newborn's foot prints is not very reliable, because foot prints are not distinctive for some time after birth. Newborn children clench their fists so tightly that finger prints cannot be made. Dr. Kegel last week suggested a novel idea: stencil the infant's foot in suntan from an ultraviolet lamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Baby-fight | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

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