Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Nance Garner, 86% ; voice quality fair, delivery good, mannerisms excellent, poise good. Attribute: his "down-to-earth Texas accent . . . hard-headed common sense . . . homely anecdotes and similes after the manner of the late Will Rogers." Liability: a flat, high-pitched voice, "not too pleasant to listen to over long periods...
Died. Raymond Orteig, 69, restaurateur and airmen's angel; after long illness; in Manhattan. Stirred by Alcock & Brown's transatlantic flight (1919), he posted a $25,000 purse for the first non-stop New York-Paris flight. Six fliers lost their lives before Charles A. Lindbergh...
...According to Dr. Esmond Ray Long of Philadelphia, the type of T. B. which strikes Negroes, most susceptible group in the U. S. population to respiratory diseases, is the same as that which strikes whites. T. B. develops and spreads more quickly among Negroes, and they die more quickly...
Young Dr. Alvin Edward Strock of Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital has long furrowed his brow over this front-tooth problem. The simplest procedure, he thought, would be to insert a peg in the socket of the extracted tooth, then cement a false tooth to the protruding end of the peg. But he never dared to do it, for he knew metal pegs might induce mouth irritation. Two years ago Dr. Strock decided to try the new alloy, vitallium. Vitallium is the most satisfactory metal doctors use for patching fractures. Fortnight ago, in the American Journal of Orthodontics...
...date Dr. Strock has tried his vitallium pegs out on eleven patients. How long the teeth will stay put, cautious Dr. Strock would not say, but he remarked that one patient has been using his tooth for a year and a half...