Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became the Commissariat of Interior, under the reigning Ogpu chief, smudge-mustached, pudgy-fingered Comrade Genrikh ("Henry") Grigorevitch Yagoda. Moscow's official daily Pravda ("Truth") hailed the terrorist clique in its new role as Commissariat of Interior thus: "Long has the Ogpu worn a halo formed of the deep love of tens of millions of workers and peasants both in our Soviet land and abroad!"* Last week Comrade Yagoda's Commissariat of Interior became the Commissariat General, with himself as Commissar General. Since the Cabinet of Russia is known as the Commissariat or Council of Peoples Commissars, this...
Handsome, amiable, deep-voiced Hero Hartman was born in Victoria, B. C. in, 1893, graduated from Northwestern University Dental School at 20, practiced in Seattle, went to France with the A.E.F., is now head of the Department of Operative Dentistry in Columbia's School of Dental & Oral Surgery. For 18 years of his battle against pain he experimented along the conventional, unsatisfactory lines of blocking tooth nerves or deadening them by narcotic injections. Two years ago he discovered a new substance in dentine, the bonelike matter underlying tooth enamel. Working on a new theory of pain, he developed...
Drunks swept up off the streets by police and carted to hospitals usually need sleep more than anything else, hence get little active treatment. But an occasional alcoholic may be so thoroughly saturated that he will sink from deep coma into paralysis and death. Taking an interest in such deplorable guzzlers, last year two internes at Boston's City Hospital, Drs. Leon J. Robinson and Sydney Selesnick, began experimenting on specimens in their hospital's alcoholic ward. Their aim was to develop a gas which would oxidize alcohol in the blood, help throw it off in the breath...
...violent body contortions by which a sedate burgher tries to keep his feet when he slips on an icy walk are the results of a deep-rooted reflex possessed by all animals, fully developed in newborn babes, unshakable by training. Now that it imperils motorcar operators, Dr. Henderson thinks it could be successfully sidetracked by installing a pedal in the shape of a wide panel almost flush with the floor boards under the driver's left foot. When the "extensor thrust" shoots both his legs out, though the right foot may jam down the accelerator, the pedal pushed...
...wagons fall off, be crushed beneath the wheels, while stupefied drivers were heartened at the lightening of their loads. He saw horses that fell, torn apart for food before they were killed. Pursuer and pursued mixed in a vast mass of suffering humanity, with isolated groups of French deep in Russian lines, crazed Cossacks lost among French refugees. Weary of slaughtering, Cossacks stole clothing, then gave their victims clothing they had stolen from others. Frightened at reports of an "idiotic" coup in Paris, alarmed at the lack of news, Napoleon fled with Caulaincourt across Poland and Germany to reach France...