Word: discomforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reason for the comparative discomfort of bachelor hall was that the fixtures in the huge, antiquated kitchen in the basement were being removed to make way for modern electric equipment. A second operation even closer to the Roosevelt heart: an ancient "grotto:' used as a cow barn by Andrew Jackson was being freshened up to serve as a storehouse for rare old hams and fine cheeses relished by the Squire of Hyde Park...
Stanford's Dr. Terman had found that his typical divorced woman was inclined to be less mercenary than happily or unhappily married women. Mr. Anthony likewise found that his jailing wives were unmercenary, at least in the sense that they would rather discomfort their husbands than get money from them. When he pointed out to the women who called on him that no money would be forthcoming so long as the husband was in jail, the caller almost invariably replied: "That's all right; I'll get along without his money...
Eastman Kodak, which has not yet determined the selling price of the 32x72 in. films necessary for such a full-length radiograph, claims that it will be useful for taking a picture of all the broken and dislocated bones of an accident victim with a minimum of discomfort. Such pictures might also show all secondary cancers in an individual and the full extent of rickets. Students of anatomy and physiology could use such complete radiographs to study the varying relations of bones and organs to posture...
...criminal activities started some two weeks ago when the student's room was the objective of a fusillade of bullets which pierced three window panes, much to the mental and monetary discomfort of the occupant. The act was attributed to one of the numerous urchins living in the vicinity, and in the general scurry over divisionals was soon forgotten...
...Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital, where physicians at first thought his left kidney might be displaced. Then an x-ray showed a growth in his stomach. But on an x-ray plate exposed a week later the growth had disappeared. The physicians were stumped. As may any prolonged internal discomfort, Henry Harrington's pains might indicate cancer. But with x-ray there was no way to tell until the cancer should attain a considerable mass. Last week Dr. John Falenks of Manhattan went to the physicians' aid with something new to the U. S. Named "Gastro-Photo...