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...dinosaur with] hypertrophy of both the premaxilla and the anterior ramus of the maxilla...and has prominent epipophyses for muscle attachments. The neural spines increase in height rapidly in the middorsal vertebrae, forming a low median sail that is deepest over the sacral vertebrae." --Science

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Nov. 23, 1998 | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...McMahon, who was cleverly identified as Leigh Hogan. Any hockey fan worth his Section 18 seat can tell you that Hogan is number S. McMahon 15; that Hogan shoots right, and McMahon left: and that McMahon sports a mustache. The last time I looked, Hogan's upper maxilla was bare...

Author: By H.f. Willard, | Title: Letter to the Sports Editor | 2/20/1975 | See Source »

Jawbones. Within each half of the upper jawbone (maxilla) is a sinus. Here occur one out of every 100 cancers. Dr. William Thomas Peyton of the University of Minnesota discourages mere surgery for the treatment of this cancer because "surgery alone, total excision of the maxilla, carries a high mortality (15% to 40%), and results in very few, if any, permanent cures. With proper combination of surgery and radium five-year cures may be obtained in 10% of all cancers of the antrum coming for treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

...code name in office conversation. . . . Colonel George B. M. Harvey was 'Sawpit'; James Gordon Bennett came over the cable as 'Gaiter' and William R. Hearst as 'Gush.' For William J. Bryan, two code designations were used: 'Guilder' and 'Maxilla,' the latter possibly a delicate reference to jaw. Pomeroy Burton became 'Gumbo,' perhaps as he himself said because he was 'so often in the soup.' The code amused Mr. Pulitzer and he was forever tinkering with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: An Editor | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

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