Word: decays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dental lymph, he told the New York State Dental Society at Syracuse last week, apparently nourishes teeth, keeps them supplied with the mineral salts which make them hard and impervious to bacteria and bits of food which cause decay. Malnutrition is one of the factors which disturbs this protective activity of the dental lymph. Therefore, to keep teeth sound, general good health is as important as brushing the teeth. But especially if health is below par, then it is very important to keep mouth and teeth clean...
...developing this clear-cut picture of tooth histology and thus reconciling some of the diverse explanations of tooth decay, the New York State Dental Society last week gave inquisitive Dentist Bodecker a gold medal...
LAUGHTER IN THE DARK - Vladimir Nabokoff - Bobbs-Merritt ($2.50). The European psychological novel of moral decay, represented at its best by the novels of André Gide, Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, is now eclipsed by politically-minded fiction. Sharply reminiscent of such psychopathic fiction, but with an acuteness that raises it above mere imitativeness is Laughter in the Dark, first English translation of a Russian exile. The story tells of a respectable, middle-aged Berlin art dealer who deserts his family for a tart, reaches its climax of corruption when, after he is blinded, she carries...
...original pump was constructed in 1764 over a 35 ft. well to accomodate students in Hollis Hall. But so many others took advantage of it that about 35 years ago it fell into the last stages of decay. Several sporadic attempts to blow it up in 1904 and 1905 did not remedy the situation and the University was finally forced to remove...
...Stein and Cummings appear to go too far in the bypath of experimental writing, Saroyan and Schwartz advance exactly far enough. Granted that the fight against the decay of language must be positive and militant, the leaders of semantics should realize that their experimental writing cannot be absurd or incomprehensible to that sector of society against whom their offensive must be strongest: to the mass...