Word: graftings
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...more and better trees than the one shading Charlie Wilson's head on your Feb. 19 cover. The fruit, so abundantly sprouting from this tree's limbs, has surely proved deficient in the kind of vitamins the world (including the U.S.) needs most. If Artist Artzybasheff could graft on some Spiritual plums, some apples of Reason and a few pears of Understanding it would seem a lot healthier...
Cyril can now swallow and talk haltingly. A final graft will soon give his new tongue a tip, Cyril's doctors hope, and restore his rich, native brogue. "It was an unusual operation," said modest Plastic Surgeon J. P. Reidy last week, "only because it was an unusual accident...
...addition, surgeons graft muscles onto bones whose natural muscles have been deformed by the disease and plant nerves and tendons in paralyzed portions of the body...
...Providing the government revised its tax system, eliminated official graft and corruption, and took several other remedial measures, the mission headed by Daniel W. Bell recommended that the U.S. lend $250 million...
...grubby politics have aggravated the problem. When the depression drove prices down to absurdly low levels, assessments followed. When prices rose again, the valuation of residential buildings stayed where it was. Even then, abatements came easily if a property-holder knew the right people. The fee for this graft was high, but well worth it. The Politicians used to overassess business property in order to lower the tax rate, and then grant wholesale abatements. The voters are impressed with the low rate, but the city cannot meet its expenses. The debt has mounted up through the years to over...