Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Premier his good friend Senator Paul Painlevé, a Republican Socialist. That M. Herriot is the power behind the political throne in France was shown when he and President Lebrun jointly received the Corps Diplomatique last week, as though M. Herriot were already Premier. Legally he is a mere Deputy...
Significance. Acting Premier Takahashi enjoys no more of the nation's confidence than did the "Old Fox." In 1925 there was rejoicing when Mr. Takahashi resigned leadership of the Seiyukai Party. His mere ousting, Japanese thought, would draw better men into the Party...
...Benito Mussolini there is in fact no Stedford, no Luciana and no Elena. Not a "Stedford" but Wall Street's greatest banks have supplied the Fascist Regime with loans. So many women have brightened the Dictator's leisure that to pick out one and call her "Luciana" is mere English understatement. Finally the Dictator, who was a proud, prolific father long before his rise to power, has most certainly never aspired to marry a daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele...
...they "might as well have bought the cab." But one son (Glenn Anders of Hotel Universe and Strange Interlude) is not quite so tractable. This reaction is due to the fact that he married a girl who dabbles in sculpture and wants something more out of life than the mere eating and sleeping" which the Hallams appear to get. Mother Hallam does not approve of this son's wife, her sculpture her tea gown, her furniture which "does not match." But the son's young nephew Jerry (John Beal, a capable juvenile just graduated from Pennsylvania...