Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left cross when the champion, forcing the fight as a champion should, charged in with his head low, swinging both hands. The referee, Lieutenant Jack Kennedy, U. S. N., gave Corbett every round up to the sixth when Corbett failed to back away from a right to the jaw just before the bell. Corbett won the seventh but the eighth was even; Fields came on again in the ninth and had a chance to keep his title by a strong finish. There was one exchange in which both men stood still in the centre of the ring, trading punches with...
...Everett, entered the dining room one morning to find there was no room for him at the breakfast table. Grumbling bitterly, he took his bowl of cereal into the kitchen, soon returned with a pistol, shot his niece's son-in-law, Kelton Pearce, 30, in the jaw...
...came out en- thusiastically for the first round. He outboxed Schaaf and continued to outbox him in the second until, when the round was more than half over, Schaaf landed the blow that really settled the fight. This was a short right uppercut which caught Poreda squarely on the jaw, landed him on the ring floor so suddenly that he forgot to stay down for a count of nine...
...Human evolution is largely a matter of brain expansion and jaw reduction. It has reached a stage now where we have bigger and possibly better brains than we can use, and smaller and worse jaws than the health of the individual and the preservation of the species demand. Eskimos are almost the only human race in whom dental degeneration is not manifest...
...Baker, professor of Orthodontia, has conducted classic experiments demonstrating the tremendous effect upon the growth and form of the face and head which is brought about by extracting the teeth from one side of the jaw of a growing animal. He is also making modern application of Hunter's experiments in pregnant animals, in which the feeding of madder, a yellowish vegetables substance, indicates that future dentistry will begin before the child is born, and proves for the first time that madder fed to a pregnant mother directly effects the bones and teeth of the unborn infant...