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Word: dentists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quit school, became a soda jerk, then an insurance investigator-until a slight mathematical mistake on his part cost his firm $40,000. Once a dentist hired him to mind his office during lunch hour; Danny busied himself making needlepoint designs in the woodwork with the dentist's drill. Eventually, he and Eisen took their harmony act to station WBBC, Brooklyn. At last Danny thought he was getting somewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Git Gat Gittle | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...offices; 2) learned that a former medical building was now full of lawyers and optometrists; 3) made an architect laugh when he suggested remodeling a store; 4) made a contractor laugh when he suggested buying and fixing up a building for doctors' offices; 5) wound up in a dentist's tiny storeroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors' Dilemma | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

Dental Fleece. In Columbus, S.C., Dentist C. B. Draffin stepped out of his office and a stranger stepped in, collected $10 in advance for repairs on a patient's plates, quickly stepped out again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 12, 1945 | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

Among 16-to-19-year-old Britishers who dare the dentist, 12% need a complete set of false teeth.* Open spaces are as common in the West End as in Limehouse. Bad teeth plague cabinet members and ships' stokers alike. What is wrong with British teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Britain's Bad Teeth | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

...Topping the U.S. big ten was Arnold Denker, who was a welterweight, flunked plane geometry, looked as much like a deep thinker as most 200-lb. fullbacks. Cracked Champion Denker before he dug in, by remote control,against Champion Botvinnik: "I've just got to beat him . . . my dentist's name also happens to be Botvinnik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Real Chess, Too | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

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