Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...storm burst at a secret session of the Council. Senhor Afranio Mello Franco announced his original stand once more and clung to it. An informal caucus of the delegates of nine Latin American nations twice met and twice repudiated the declaration of Senhor Franco that Brazil was only holding firm in the interest of all Latin America...
...crib. She snatched up the child and hurriedly felt for open diaperpins. Then she undressed it to hunt for chafes. The body was pink and dry. Gently she pressed the abdomen, even though the cries were not those of colic. The flesh dimpled under her probing finger. It was firm yet not rigid. Puzzled and worried she dandled her baby a moment and gave it to nurse. The wailing had subsided to choking, interrupted whimpers. Tears mottled the baby face like dew on roses. The mother kissed them away...
...erysipelas, wounds, boils, suppurating sweat glands, and very little likelihood of any decay of a bone in the skull. Encephalocele, a tumor formed by the sticking out through the soft infantile skull of the membranes of the brain, with brain matter and cerebrospinal fluid? No. This bump was too firm. Meningocele, a tumor containing the meninges of the brain and spinal fluid? Probably not, because a meningocele usually protrudes through an unossified part of the skull, usually at the back, sometimes at the root of the nose...
...first test of any job is, of course, the standing and reputation of the concern. If a firm has been doing business over a period of years; if it is sound; if it enjoys a good reputation, preferably if it is nationally known, or at least is familiar to the people who are its legitimate prospects; if it has for some years been putting out satisfactory products, it meets this first test...
Already in the U. S. some 8,000 men have undergone this operation. Many of the operations were performed by Dr. Harry Benjamin of Manhattan. This young man (aged 41) is an imaginative surgeon. His face is powerful (jaw muscles firm; lips a straight, decisive line; eyes boring). He combines knowledge with insight, skill with daring. He shuns publicity from his knowledge of stupidly inaccurate reporting and from respect for his professional ideals. In a recent professional paper he reported on 114 of his cases. He told that 77% showed positive results, improvement, that 7% showed negative results, that...