Word: decays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crescent of islands that forms the Leeward and Windward groups, down through Barbados (whose 1,163 people to the square mile make up the densest agricultural population in the Western Hemisphere) to Tobago and Trinidad (which imports four-fifths of its food). Everywhere the investigators found squalor, economic decay, unrest. Ruled by professional colonial administrators, with a hierarchy of whites and an exploited mass of blacks, Chinese and East Indian coolies, the West Indies were the victims of unrepresentative government, of the low exchange value of such primary products as sugar, cocoa, bananas...
...autumn with his pockets full of Queen's Court cheroots and an unfinished manuscript in his luggage. Completed in the pauses of a strenuous lecture tour and now put forth as something resembling a novel, Going Native exhibits Dr. Gogarty's prose in a lively state of decay. It concerns the adventures of a Casanovian Irishman, Gideon Ouseley, among the English. About it hangs an odd flavor of the old Evelyn Waugh, not least in the dedication "to Alfred and Patricia Flesh of Piqua." It begins with a ripe and shameless piece of blarney in which Ouseley describes...
Last week, at the Columbus, Ohio meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a group of enthusiastic dentists and physicians told how they had continued Dr. Dean's work, discussed the possibilities of using fluorine as a decay preventive. Significant reports...
...second group of 45 rats, living on the same diet, had their teeth bathed in a weak mixture of potassium fluoride in water once a day. Results: 1) all the rats in Group I had large cavities; 2) the rats in Group II "showed a 70% reduction in dental decay"; 3) 13 of the rats in Group II had no cavities. The reduction was "not mainly in the size of the cavities, but in the number of lesions." Dr. Finn will soon use his fluoride solution to bathe the teeth of children in a Rochester orphan asylum...
...Benjamin Frank Miller of Chicago's Zoller Memorial Dental Clinic reported that fluorine killed the bacteria which breed in mouth acids (lactobacilli), cause tooth decay. In addition, said Dr. Joseph F. Volker of the University of Rochester, fluorine enters into direct chemical combination with the teeth, strengthens them against decay...