Word: minerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dentists smiled at such punning, wished it would stop. As he was about to turn over A. D. A.'s presidency to Dr. Leroy Matthew Simpson ('"Roy") Miner of Boston last week, Dr. George Ben Winter, St. Louis exodontist (specialist in tooth pulling), observed that only a hundred years ago all U. S. dentists were "drawn from the ranks of the artisans, goldsmiths, blacksmiths and barbers." Since then dentists have improved in knowledge, skill and culture. Yet so halting has been their social progress that an official A. D. A. committee last week was obliged to report...
Manfully dentists last week strove to improve their status. Dr. Miner, their new president, who is both Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Medical Dentistry, told them: "Not until diagnosis becomes the foundation on which the whole structure of dentistry is built can it lay claim to be a learned profession or an important branch of the great art and science of healing." As tooth-menders, most dentists realize that they are little more than unrespected artisans working on the fringe of health. As preventers of dental disease, they run the risk of becoming doctors' handymen, in a class...
...himself in such medical fundamentals as anatomy, pathology, diagnosis, hygiene, as well as the special dental problems of jaws, gums and teeth. If the student in a medical school puts similar emphasis on the mouth, and its contents, he may call himself a stomatologist (mouth expert), as does Dentist Miner when he teaches at Boston University School of Medicine. When he teaches at Harvard University's Dental School, Stomatologist Miner becomes Professor of Clinical Oral Surgery...
...Miner: "The American Dental Association is firmly opposed to socialization in any compulsory form...
...trapped miner was a trapped miner, and Superintendent Jones called his foreman, assembled timber, tackle and a squad of miners for the rescue. All that day and the following night the rescuers could hear faint sounds from Enoch Kuklinskie. They were afraid that wet clay dripping from the shaft walls would fill up the air holes in the rubble before they reached him. Next morning they got him free, hoisted him out of the shaft on a board...