Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most hay fever victims understand little about their malady. No mere irritant of nose and throat, the pollen, when inhaled, affects the bloodstream, is repelled by specific "reagins" the body produces to fight the irritating grains. Hence neither inhalants nor drops in the eyes bring more than temporary relief. But fairly reliable insurance for a quiet season is hypodermic injections given two months before the expected illness: a doctor scratches a patient's skin, applies various types of pollen extract; the one which produces wheals and itching is then administered in subcutaneous injections of refined, sterilized pollen...
...Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo, he cannot be called an imitation. Cristobal Hernando Pinzon, handsome, precocious hero of the tale, lives for a revenge that is all his own. At 21, on the eve of the World War, Cristobal is a director of a Jesuit bank, making a mere $50,000 a year. At War's end, his daring speculations have made him the richest man in the world. Meanwhile, he has helped rig a Papal election, has picked up two shady stooges and has narrowly missed marrying a rich, broad-shouldered, English adventuress. His next four affairs...
Modest, soft-spoken Dr. Brockway, son of a California rancher, refuses all requests to make short men tall by stretching both legs, says that he will not perform a serious operation on mere grounds of personal vanity...
...March, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold carefully explained his aims. Excerpt: "It is the belief of the Department of Justice that certain rearrangements must be made in the moving-picture industry in order to maintain competitive conditions in the future. Those rearrangements require a more constructive effort than mere prosecution for past practices. . . . Under this policy a lawsuit should be considered as the beginning of co-operation between the courts, the legislature, the Department of Justice and the industry to achieve a common...
...slipped a mere ten years (wish I could do the same) in publication date of How To Tell The Birds From The Flowers. My dog-eared and beloved copy bears imprint of Paul Elder Co., San Francisco and New York, 1907, which year Santa Claus brought...