Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Floridians last week insisted that the extermination of this pest was virtually complete, that Secretary of Agriculture Hyde should consider relaxing the federal quarantine. They accused their citrus-competitor, California, of exaggerating the fruit fly's destruction in Florida, of spreading false stories of fruit trees cut down, orchards obliterated...
They were only making exploratory incisions, preparing the way. Certain of these cuts would be allowed to heal. In about a month there would be a second, final operation, and the prostate would be cut cleanly...
...function and importance of tonsils are much mooted points. Some physiologists claim that the tonsils supply a secretion necessary for the body yet their being cut out causes no unusual symptoms. Others maintain that the tonsils catch bacteria and prevent them getting into the system. Still others show that the tonsils are excellent breeding places for germs. Most agree that their removal does good in many instances, harm...
Housewives who buy in the package in stead of off the carcass will be certain of cut, cleanliness and quality. And the manufacturer will have taken another step toward making the burden of salesman ship weigh even more lightly upon the retailing shoulder...
...divorce lawyers who have taken out of Reno tall tales of the university students "working their way through college by performing as rich women's gigolos." The only ascertainable basis for such scandal is the appearance at Reno's railroad station, from time to time, of clean-cut young college men come to say goodbye to ladies from far parts whom they knew in Reno while they (the ladies) were being accommodated on domestic matters by a State more sympathetic than most...