Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last 20 years, surgery has explored every organ of the body. Many a surgeon, flushed with scientific and financial success, thinks of his profession as a game of skilled slashing and speedy patching. Greatly worried by this too-common, hardboiled attitude are Dr. Elliott C. Cutler, chief surgeon of Boston's famed Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and his associate, Dr. Robert Zollinger. To them surgery is not only a science but an art, a religion, and a means of self-expression. Last week they published their new folio-sized manual of surgery,* first book of its kind since...
...Complete lack of enthusiasm among the common people in Germany" is the principal difference in the Reich today from the conditions of 25 years ago, Charles G. Loomis, instructor in German, who returned this week from Munich, declared yesterday...
...official declaration to Bucharest, declared that so far as Rumania is concerned Russia will remain "neutral." Many Rumanians believed that the speed with which the U. S. S. R. nipped in and took southern Poland before Germany could do so, thus keeping the Reich from getting a common frontier with Rumania, also nipped what may well have been German Nazi plans for surging into Rumania synchronously with the assassination of Premier Calinescu by Rumanian Fascists...
...gives the Soviet Union roughly three-fifths of what was Poland, and most remarkably the oil wells in the South long coveted by Germany. Germany gets almost the whole of Poland's great industrial areas and roughly half the population of what was Poland, but gives up the common frontier she sought with Rumania as a source of oil. The Soviet Union for the first time gets a frontier with East Prussia and with Hungary, which hurriedly last week patched up its broken-down diplomatic relations between Budapest and Moscow by appointing a new minister to Moscow...
...body fat of most animals, can be stored up by man for many months. For adequate production and storage of vitamin A, a diet should be abundant in "thin green leaves," bright yellow fruits, vegetables such as carrots, corn, sweet potatoes. Vitamin A prevents night blindness, a failing as common in the U. S. today as in ancient Egypt, where diet-wise physicians cured thousands of cases with liver. Few persons realize that vitamin A is the most important of all vitamins for proper tooth formation in growing children, and for resistance to infection. It is also vital for healthy...