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...practically any patient can reach. If the patient is too ill to travel or, like President Roosevelt, very important, the dentists may go to him.* But this is considered extraordinary dental practice. Nonetheless, there are no laws to prevent licensed dentists who cannot gather the $3,000 necessary to equip a regular office, from putting their equipment in satchels, packs or motor trailers, so long as they confine their practice to their own States. In the cases of the Albany itinerants, none had licenses to practice anywhere. None had dental training. Nevertheless they found patients who were willing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: House-to-House Dentists | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...time Bob Feller was 11 he was playing with American Legion teams. Father Feller, well aware by this time that his son would justify his hopes, decided to equip him with a team of his own. He scraped a Feller wheatfield, organized a team called the Oak Views on which, when he was not pitching, young Bob Feller was the shortstop. In 1934, pitching for Oak View, Bob Feller struck out 161 adult opponents in ten games. That autumn he and his father went to the World Series. Said Bob Feller after the games: "I can do as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball: New Season | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...because of defective parts or supply of accessories." To the Gorky plant went a Pravda correspondent to investigate. For some minutes he watched the line of half-finished cars gliding serenely past. Suddenly the line stopped. "What is wrong?" he asked. Replied the foreman, "We have no horn to equip the next machine on the conveyor." After a half-hearted search lasting 30 minutes a worker dawdled up with three horns in his apron, and the line began to move once more. Said the foreman, "This sort of thing is constantly happening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Hornlessness | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Unknown to the undergraduate, groups have been at work for the last three years in an attempt to weigh down the back of his study door with brass armor plate. It's all a part of a general campaign to equip each room of the College with a complete roster of all former occupants. For example, we quote from a letter recently received by the Alumni Bulletin from a Mr. Miles L. Hanley of Madison, Wisconsin, who took a Masters degree here in 1927 and who appears to be one of the leaders of the present drive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...glibly away, last week Royalist Tsaldaris declared: "The words 'Parliamentary Republic' do not need to be changed because a Republican Government is not necessarily without a King." The Tsaldaris Government next decided that between Sept. 22 and 29, Greeks will vote in a nationwide plebiscite whether to equip their Republic with a Throne and set a King upon it or leave seedy old Alexander Zaimis alone as President of Greece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Spitework | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

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