Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Million. The bloodless Nicaraguan explosion had been set off by Arguello's reckless ultimatum to Somoza to get out of the country within 24 hours. Somoza was of a mind to take a powder. After all, he was due for an operation at Rochester's Mayo Clinic, and he was said to have a fat $20 million in the U.S. But he also had $100 million in land, cattle, railways, bananas and coffee in Nicaragua. He would trust that to no one. From Argüello he got an extension of time...
...want to hire a man who is going to produce," declared the Mayo Clinic's Dr. Charles W. Mayo, "the easiest way to make sure of that is to get one who has a duodenal ulcer." He's apt to be on his toes, he explained...
Fifty patients had come to the Mayo Clinic complaining (among other things) of toothache and the gradual erosion of their front teeth. The dentists discovered that all of them had been addicted, for months or years, to lemon-sucking-or to an early morning drink of lemon juice and water. Some patients' teeth were worn down to the gums. Mayo's experts decided that their tooth enamel must have been eaten away by the citric acid in lemons...
Therapeutics. Then the clinic is ready to attempt a cure. Students put their fingers lightly on their lips or throat, often discover with surprise that they are reading "out loud" (which slows them up). Readers who shy away from new or long words get a dictionary to strengthen their "word attack": vocabulary, spelling, "phonics" (tying sounds to letters...
Thirty of the nation's leading circulation specialists and a group of industrial bigwigs met in Cleveland last week to launch the American Foundation for High Blood Pressure. Prime mover of the Foundation is Dr. Irvine Page of the Cleveland Clinic...