Word: might
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ever since doctors and other workers with X-rays discovered that the rays sterilized them (now they protect themselves by aprons of rubber impregnated with lead), they have been chary of X-raying women who might be gravid. It is not always certain that a woman is pregnant. She may be bloated through hysteria or, more usually, have a benign tumor or a cancer. X-rays can help in the diagnosis. X-rays can also destroy the tumor, or the fetus. Radium is also therapeutically destructive. Just what effect radium, or X-rays in their various doses have...
...Plate argument runs somewhat as follows: The I. C. C. order told Nickel Plate, New York Central and Baltimore & Ohio to dispose of their Wheeling stock. The New York Central and the B. & O. anticipated this order by transferring their stock to Allegheny Corp., Van Sweringen holding company. Objection might be taken to joint control of the Wheeling by three roads, but its control by one road is quite another matter...
Barlow. After the Spanish War, U. S. Citizen Joseph E. Barlow settled in Havana. He dreamed it might one day be a fashionable winter resort. He helped develop the Marianao residential district, laying water mains on the Cuban Government's promise of reimbursement. He now claims that $122,000 is still owing on this account, that the Cuban Congress has appropriated the money, that President Machado has refused...
...pixie's mischiefs. Mentally Mr. Snowden is honest, alert, fearless. Long years of suffering from a spinal affliction have warped him physically, reduced him to hobbling upon two canes, given his drawn face its ascetic pallor. If he did not lash out savagely at his enemies they might treat him with a pitying consideration which he could not endure. As Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1924 Labor Cabinet of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, he won a sort of right to criticize the budgets of succeeding Chancellors, to sear and slash. He exercised that right last week most...
...exact a penny more from her European debtors than is exacted from her by the U. S. These unctuous words have enabled Honest John Bull to pass the blame for collecting War debts on to Uncle Shylock Sam. Without the Balfour Note, both France and Italy to-day might well be on hostile instead of friendly terms with Britain. Therefore, almost everyone in the House of Commons was flabbergasted when Spleenful Snowden cried...