Word: mouth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...army fighting the French in Holland; the rest was to soothe a banking panic in Hamburg. Half her cargo was insured with Lloyd's. In the North Sea a storm hit her. With bare poles she ran before the wind, struck on the island of Terschelling at the mouth of the Zuider Zee, and sank in 50 feet of water...
...clerk in his father's bank at $67.50 a month. Thence he moved to the St. Louis firm of A. G. Edwards & Sons as a statistician, in 1931 was sent to Manhattan as its Exchange member. Immediately intrigued by the machinery of the Exchange, he often stood, mouth agape, watching speculation flow around him on the floor. Soon he was an expert at all phases of the market, could quote the capitalizations of 49 out of 50 firms chosen at random. In 1935 he became a governor, unobtrusively joined the Shields group...
Insulin must be injected hypodermically because, when swallowed, it is digested and rendered impotent to reduce sugar in the blood. But Drs. Large and Brocklesby say "there is not a great deal of difference between the results of giving extract of devil's-club by mouth or syringe." Thus they premise an easier and possibly a cheaper life for diabetics, who must forever take medication...
...Bodenstein cut off the circulation of the substance back of the pupa's head.* The head and shoulders metamorphosed normally, the mouth lost its caterpillar jaws and acquired a honey-sucking proboscis, the shoulders sprouted wings. But the body, deprived of the stimulus, remained frozen in the pupal stage...
...Manhattan's murky East River, sand hogs for the last year have been boring the two tubes of a midtown vehicular tunnel intended by 1940 to connect Manhattan Island with Long Island. Each 31 feet in diameter, the tubes are bored by great circular "shields." Like the mouth of a great pipe, the shield is forced ahead by hydraulic pressure, cutting two feet eight inches at each thrust into sub-bottom deposit. Between forward thrusts, workmen remove the muck within the shield, line each new section with cylindrical cast-iron casing. Keeping the river and its oozy bottom from...