Word: molar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blaine−"is peerless in blatancy. . . . On a heavy gold chain across his paunch he sports a large Elk's molar, a gift from admiring lodge brothers...
...toothache which suddenly seized him after the train had left station past help of all drugstores, dentists? "One method would seem to be as follows: 1) Read papers furiously in effort to distract mind. 2) Hold small quantity of whiskey in mouth extracted from pocket flask. 3) Plaster offending molar with chewing-gum. "On Aug. 12 the writer had cause to be greatly annoyed after trying the above methods without results. He then opened the current issue of TIME, and, upon glancing up, much to his surprise found train pulling into his station, two hours distant. Toothache had vanished...
...method would seem to be as follows: 1) Read papers furiously in effort to distract mind. 2) Hold small quantity of whiskey in mouth extracted from pocket flask. 3) Plaster offending molar with chewing...
...discovery, in a coal mine on the windswept mountain slopes near Billings, Mont., of a fossil molar tooth of human appearance, mixed in with fossil clams and lizards known to belong in the Eocene period, 50 to 60 million years ago, caused a great deal of newspaper talk last autumn. But experts were inclined to view the molar as that of euprotogonia, doglike Eocene quadruped with manlike teeth in its bearlike-horselike head...
...possibility that Mr. Hirschberg will make a vaudeville tour with his specimen is generally discounted since the skull alone weighs 450 pounds, the hip bones are five feet, eight and a half inches long, and a single molar tooth is as large as a foot hassock of the Victorian...