Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chief cause of ulcers is excess production of hydrochloric acid, which erodes the lining of the stomach. (This abnormal flow of acid is usually produced by constant worrying, emotional upsets.) Standard medical treatment for ulcers consists of many small meals of bland, semiliquid foods based on milk & cream. Thus the stomach, frequently filled, has small chance to consume itself, and the ulcer, like other sores, gradually heals. But this treatment, said Dr. Winkelstein, does not go far enough. Between meals the acid continues its destructive work, especially at night, time of greatest acid flow in ulcer patients...
...example, during the worst of the Arab riots in Palestine, he was in constant and dangerous touch with the Arab leaders. He reached and interviewed the Grand Mufti when he was being sought by the British, wandered through the Arab quarters with a nonchalance that frightened his friends. Visiting Correspondent Phelps Adams is quoted as saying, "Zinder knew what the Arabs would do and where they would do it almost as soon as they knew it themselves...
...seams. With the war, thousands of Britain's 700,000 coal miners have left their noxious slums and dismal wages for better-paying defense jobs or the fighting services (the draft and volunteer rate has been 25,000 a year). Among those who remain, strikes have been constant, the Mineworkers' Federation (union) demanding a national minimum weekly wage of $17, an average increase...
There is plenty to do within striking distance of the Yard without attending chemical colloquia and searching out the glass flowers. Just what will appeal to the taste of each individual is a variable, but the range of activities has remained constant for years...
...caused by external environmental agents such as X rays, radium rays, ultraviolet rays, certain complex tar and benzine compounds, hundreds of other carcinogenic (cancer-causing) chemicals. Farmers and sailors may develop skin cancer through long exposure to the ultraviolet rays of sunlight. Cotton spinners in Britain, who are constantly exposed to the carcinogenic mineral oil used in lubricating the spindles, may develop "mule spinners' cancer" of the scrotum. Obviously, said Dr. Cramer, occupational cancer is a "preventable disease." Social Cancers, an expression coined by Dr. Cramer, which include cancers of the esophagus, stomach, upper digestive tract -all especially common...