Word: containers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...infected teeth, tonsils, ulcer or other disease of the digestive tract, observed Dr. George Clinton Andrews Jr. & associates of Manhattan. A normal adult has very nearly 1/20 of an ounce of sand in his lungs. Dr. William Duncan McNatty of Chicago calculated. A coal miner's lungs contain about 1/6 oz., a zinc miner's 2/5 oz., a stone cutter's 3/5 oz., a granite cutter's 1 1/10 oz. Dr. William James Gardner of Cleveland described the fate of a young woman who had one-half of her brain cut out because of a tumor...
...scarcely a surprise that this year's Commencement week should find its dominant note in the field of politics and economics. One would be led to suppose, however, that this week's welter of oratory might contain something constructive to grace the thinking which went into its composition. Any close examination of the two outstanding speeches, the Phi Beta Kappa Oration and the Class Oration, shows that such was not the case...
...crew rowed together on its twenty-fifth and fortieth anniversaries. The names of the men who will row this year were not available yesterday but it is believed that the boat will contain several members of the class who were not on the original crew...
...world does is headed by Secretary of State Hull. At London he is being given his innings to prove his point. If he does not succeed, the economic isolationists, captained by Assistant Secretary of State Moley, will go to bat. Their objective will be a national economy of self-contain-ment. At hand for their innings they will have plenty of brand new heavy bats-the farm relief act, inflation, tariff uppings, embargoes...
Revival at Rome. Almost immediately the stalled engine of Disarmament began chugging again. The world learned more about Hitler's telegram from Mussolini. Whether or not it contained advice on the Hitler speech, it did contain a request for an important conference. Into an airplane climbed Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring, a War ace grown beefy, to roar over the Alps to Italy for the second time. He was a far milder Göring than the one who flew to Rome and back last month. In Rome the official banner of the Fascist party flapped from...