Word: gallingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disease, he. would find things like this: "Whereas in cases of simple cholelithiasis cholecystostomy is the operation of choice, in cases of acute calculous cholecystitis cholecystectomy is to be preferred." In plainer English: In cases of simple gallstones, it is best to remove the stones and leave the gall bladder alone; but if a patient has an inflamed gall bladder as well as stones, it is wiser to remove both stones and bladder together...
Gallstones are common in middle-aged gall bladders, attack three or four women to every man. Some people can live comfortably with them for years, but if the stones slip into the gall-bladder ducts and cork them up, they cause excruciating pains in the pit of the stomach, the breastbone, or the right side of the back...
Effective September 1, 1940: Edward A. Gall, Instructor in Pathology, M.D. Tulane '31; Thomas H. Weller, Teaching Fellow in Bacteriology, M.D. '40; Kirk T. Mosley, assistant in Epidemiology, M.P.H. '40; Joseph R. Frothingham, assistant in Medicine, M.D. '37; Herbert J. Harris, assistant in Neurology, M.D. Tufts Medical School...
...fortnight Rugg book burnings began to blaze afresh in the smalltown, American Legion belt. In rapid succession the school boards of Mountain Lakes and Wayne Township, N. J. banished Rugg texts that had been used by their pupils nearly ten years. Explained Wayne Township's Board Member Ronald Gall: "In my opinion, the books are un-American but not anti-American...
...rise of New York's Thomas E. Dewey. Winks went around: "He looks good now, but wait till the experts work out on him." Last week two experts got to work on young Mr. Dewey. In the New Yorker, mordant Wolcott Gibbs, who believes in mixing plenty of gall with his ink, profiled Mr. Dewey enthusiastically in an article that read like a long, catlike scratch. Mr. Gibbs on Mr. Dewey...