Word: dentalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he proposed to make his students "the most health-adequate youth in America." He ordered a physical checkup of Los Angeles' 10,000 high-school seniors, directed that every senior must be in shipshape condition when he graduates in June. Needy students will get free medical and dental treatment. Seniors who qualify will get a certificate of fitness; those who remain unfit through their own fault will be flunked in physical education, may thereby fail to graduate...
...citizens consume about 115 lb. of sugar a year per capita-twice the sugar ration of any other country, almost ten times what the U.S. used less than 100 years ago. Many dental researchers are sure that this excessive proportion of sugar accounts for the fact that caries (tooth decay) is the commonest U.S. disease. Fruit can satisfy the craving for something sweet, and the chemistry of the saliva and the digestive juices automatically convert the starch of bread, potatoes, corn, etc. to the sugars the body needs...
There is still some question as to whether the Dental-Medical School will admit a class in March at the beginning of the second session, as the Medical School is doing...
...years originally planned to get both the M.D. and the D.M.D. degrees, the course as now envisioned can be completed in four and one half years. Although the college and other graduate schools are cutting down the number of courses required for a degree, neither the Medical nor the Dental-Medical schools will take such action...
Applicants must furthermore have or be aiming for an A.B., S.S., or Engineering degree, yet cannot be enrolled in any other military organization including the R.O.T.C.'s. Medical, Dental, and Theological students will not be considered...