Word: decays
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Surveying medical progress (or the lack of it) in dealing with tooth decay, in the New York State Journal of Medicine, Dr. Neumann finds a big hidden cavity in every current theory and practice. A well-balanced diet is not the answer: some of the world's worst-fed peoples have the best teeth. Vitamins have no observable effect. Dr. Neumann rules out heredity, climate and sunshine. The case for fluorine (TIME, April 9), he believes, is not proved...
...thing that always seems to go with sound teeth is vigorous chewing and tough food, Dr. Neumann finds. Wherever cutlery and good table manners appear, teeth decay. His prescription for postponing tooth decay: chew hard on tough, sour bread of the kind made by European peasants. Better still, let children chew raw sugar cane...
Harvard Clubs in 1904 erected a monument to the University's founder in the shape of the Chapel of St. John--commonly known as Harvard Chapel. The foundations of the chapel were laid nearly a thousand years ago. The building, however, was allowed to lapse into decay until restored in medieval style by interested Alumni...
...structure. His final approach to his people is as simple and inadequate as a cliche: the rich, he feels, stink. This may or may not be true, but his novel never gets close enough to his people to prove it. What was meant as a clever portrait of social decay pretty much ends as a mannered exercise in claustrophobia...
Thomas Hal Phillips is a novelist, a Southerner, and 28. There stops all resemblance between Phillips and the decay-under-the-magnolias school of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams and Speed Lamkin. The South of Novelist Phillips, like the South of reality, is composed of ordinary people, good & bad, with the same feelings and frustrations as people anywhere else. His characters are no more decadent and perverse than folks in Idaho or Kansas, even though life does unroll with some regional twists...