Word: inserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bundled snugly against Minnesota's snow, Mrs. Maude Neale Lumsden, 26, of Salmo, B. C., entered huge (500 doctors) and busy Mayo Clinic last week. By & by a trim receptionist gave Mrs. Lumsden an envelope into which X-ray photographers, blood counters, uroscopists, gynecologists, internists and surgeons might insert their judgments of the young woman's distressed abdominal organs. Mrs. Lumsden distractedly examined the figure on her diagnosis envelope. With comprehension of the big number came the inner warmth which all men feel when they achieve distinction. Mrs. Lumsden's: She was the 1,000,000th patient...
...last week the trouble of guessing why he was in London on his third visit this year (TIME, Dec. 13 et ante). A very old family friend, with whom young widower King Leopold and his widowed mother Queen Elisabeth had been staying in England, last week had his solicitors insert as a letter in the London Times the champion disclaimer of the year: "We are instructed by His Grace the Duke of Portland to publish this complete and unqualified denial of every suggestion that has been made in certain newspapers in connection with the visit of His Majesty the King...
Italian Delegate Luigi Aldrovandi-Marescotti, Count of Viano, opposed this, citing Italy's conquest of Ethiopia as an example of satisfactorily settling a dispute by armed force (TIME, May 18, 1936 et ante), and claimed that the words the U. S. (Ambassador wished to insert are "historically incorrect." Grey & graceful Norman Hezekiah Davis then subsided; the note was sent off to Tokyo; the Conference rose until Japan should see fit to reply, and its chief European delegates departed to their own capitals, leaving underlings to act in Brussels. Members of the U. S. delegation said that Ambassador Davis...
...depressed weekly Eagle, edged it along seven years until the popularity of the New Deal gave him his big chance in 1933. Then he made the Eagle a free circulation Democratic daily. In a few months he hit on the big McCraken idea: into his morning tabloid he inserted-for paid subscribers only-a four-page section of local editorial comment, fiction, comics. His'best stunt was to run a serial or comic in the free sheet, then switch it to the paid insert. Thus he gradually converted free readers into paying subscribers...
...Insert after second paragraph...