Word: decays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor Percy Rogers Howe of Harvard went U. S. dentistry's prime award, the Fauchard Medal, for demonstrating how poor nutrition causes teeth to decay. He saluted the medal with a speech...
...Larger use of the X-ray by dentistry and more definite study of dental decay and pyorrhea as manifestations of something going wrong elsewhere in the body are necessary to real progress in the profession. Dental decay and pyorrhea are both preventable diseases and successful treatment of them is dependent on the dentist's assuming a medical as well as a dental attitude in treating his patient...
...nation to reconstruct the foundations of its life. The capitalist system has broken down even in those countries where its authority was thought to be most secure. . . . We must plan our civilization or perish. The Labor Party recognizes that the present situation calls for bold and rapid action. The decay of the capitalist civilization brooks no delay...
...time has come for Appleton Chapel to go the way of all material things. It is not the passing of the edifice that is to be regretted, for the structural decay of the present chapel is rapidly rendering the building unsafe. But the loss of much that Appleton represents is suffered with varied feelings of regret...
Yesterday the Vagabond clapped two professors into temporary oblivion. They were good fellows and he was glad to be in at the kill. But this ending of the year is a trying time. All courses seem to end with the fall of a dynasty or the decay of a lofty empire. May seems to bring with it the turbid ebb and flow of human tragedy along with divisionals. The Vagabond at such a time is wont to cram his briar, lounge in a chair and stare at the smoke as it floats in fragile clouds to the ceiling. A college...