Word: colonizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stomach and spreads the barium cream evenly into all the wrinkles, leaving their ridges bare and transparent to x-rays. The roentgenogram appears striped. Every deflected stripe indicates potentially serious trouble. Dr. Hampton now is trying to adapt the same method to showing the haustra, or tucks, of the colon which often churn up disease...
...greet Capitan Colon Eloy Alfaro, Ecuador's Minister to the U. S., and all Pan-American women, Senora Hermelinda U. Briones, Ecuadorean good-will flyer, took off from New York one day last week en route to Washington. Over Chestertown, Md. she got lost, landed in a cornfield, greeted a farmer, hired him to guide her across Chesapeake Bay. At Baltimore Farmer Richard S. Bruckner got out, collected his fee as guide, returned home by bus and ferry. In Washington next day, 24 hours overdue, arrived Greeter Briones in the name of the Union de las Mujeres Americanos...
...whiskery, rod-shaped germ called Bacillus dysenteriae and related to both the colon and typhoid fever germs causes bacillary dysentery. The bacillus strikes the bowels more quickly and feverishly than does the ameba. On the other hand, the bacillus does less damage than the ameba, and yields to treatment more readily. Nonetheless, seven have died of bacillary dysentery in New Jersey, 278 have been hospitalized since July. Some cases have appeared in Manhattan and surrounding New York communities, but no notable number of deaths...
Jimmie Rodgers' death, however, did not put an end to the sale of his records. His widow still gets about $200 per month in royalties. His plaintive voice still yodeled last week from honkytonks in Port-au-Prince, cantinas in Colon, dives in Sidney. Lately Jimmie Rodgers' name was given additional immortality. Compañia Vinícola Hispano Americano of Panama City put a Jimmie Rodgers rum on the market...
...developed the x-ray film he discovered that his model held her bobbed hair in place with metal hairpins, her stockings with metal clasps. Her skeleton is boyish-broad shoulders, narrow hips, big lungs and heart. Her only trouble, and that not yet serious, appears to be a sagging colon...