Word: decays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Landing at Shanghai, Colonel Thompson and his entourage sped to Peking without accident, saw there the blazing blue-tiled Temple of Heaven, and the Forbidden City, now moldering with decay. Returning to Shanghai, there to take ship for Japan, Colonel Thompson was informed that no sooner had his train passed the railway bridge just south of Nanking than it was dynamited, wrecking a subsequent train...
...Teeth. "Decay of the teeth is prevalent in 80% to 85% of the people. . . . After rigid investigation we have definitely concluded that the decay of the teeth is specific infection, just as specific as tuberculosis or typhoid fever. Cleaning the teeth will not prevent decay, but will lessen the possibility of it. Decay is accentuated chiefly by the excessive eating of sugar," said Professor Russell W. Bunting of Michigan University before the same meeting...
Like all critics of the status quo, and they are essential preventatives of innocuous decay, Dr. Kirkpatrick has found an ill without finding a cure other than one so remote as to exist in the and of dreams. While the faculty is a group of specialists in learning, while the undergraduate is attempting to gain some conception of what that learning means to his world and to him, there is little time for administrative functioning...
...Smyrna, once called "The Golden," now recovering slowly from a vile decay, 13 men wrote busily last week each his last will and testament...
...will say "Farewell" (if they are so formal), and in truth the deserted and departed aspect of it will fit the mood of many, alike those who have received postals and those who have not. In the next few days, most of them will glory in the air of decay in which they perform the last rites and, between jumping on recalcitrant trunks and stuffing odd laundry cases, will heave the sighs of relief that indicate. "It is all over". One hopes that the return will be solaced by the arts of summer...