Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flat-as-a-flounder moccasins and sandals affected by adolescent girls are just as bad as the high heels worn by their ex-flapper mothers. Mayo Clinic's Dr. Earl C. Elkins warned the jitterbugs that if they keep on wearing the flat flats, their arches will eventually pancake and they'll have "sled runners for feet...
...victim had not told the airline that he had been in a tubercular clinic and under treatment by pneumothorax (collapsed lung). His death was due to a simple law of physics: as atmospheric pressure decreased, the air in his chest cavity expanded to a volume that swiftly caused fatal complications...
Broadside. In Los Angeles, the Widows' Protective League asked the Los Angeles Transportation Clinic to do something about wider seats in buses...
...simple thing to Socialist Kathe Kollwitz. For her, it was simply a weapon with which to fight complacency. In 1891, at 24, she married a Berlin doctor, helped finance his clinic by selling harrowing studies of the kind of people who came to him as patients. Kaiser Wilhelm II called her stuff "the art of the gutter," in 1898 canceled a gold medal award which was to have been given her. She bitterly opposed World War I, and skillfully recorded its ugly aftermath in Germany. The Nazis stopped her from exhibiting, but she kept right on working, turned to sculpture...
...planes, through department stores, to those who were never interested in them before. Were the planemakers and stores playing on the ignorance of their customers, overselling their wares? Many a sober booster of private flying was sure that was the case. Last week, at the third annual National Aviation Clinic in Oklahoma City, they said...