Word: mouth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour after leaving Baltimore on an overnight run to Norfolk, the 297-ft. steamship City of Baltimore was rounding the mouth of the Patapsco River when fishermen in the bay nearby saw what they thought was a great ball of fire ascending from the deck. Fire had broken out in the hold or engine room. Police boats, Coast Guard craft and private speedboats swarmed to the rescue while the City of Baltimore burned almost to the waterline. Although the scene was reminiscent of the Morro Castle, the casualty list was small -three dead, two missing at week...
...Hamilton, proved useless to police who found his body a year after his death. Identification of Hamilton was effected because his teeth, most durable part of the human body, were still in his head and because he had been to a dentist who had preserved a chart of his mouth...
Last week a onetime president of the Chicago Dental Society, alert & articulate Dr. Edward James Ryan, offered Hamilton and the children who were burned beyond recognition by the New London, Texas school explosion as cogent reasons for adding charts of every U. S. mouth to the Department of Justice's files. Such charts might valuably supplement the Department's four means of identifying criminals, prove even more useful as a means of identifying unknown corpses...
Holyoke, Mass., has a cleft palate himself, got into dentistry through his efforts to mend it. Covering the gap in the back of the mouth where the soft palate should be was his problem. Normally during speech the soft palate moves and forms a partition between the mouth and the cavity back of the nose (nasopharynx). Without it sounds reverberate through the nose. Artificial palates made of hardened rubber for the hard palate and soft rubber for the soft palate do not work well. Hinged artificial palates cause trouble...
...Fitz-Gibbon solves the problem by taking a soft wax cast of the defective mouth. He makes a thin gold plate for the hard palate and a flattened, hollow gold bulb for the soft palate. He solders these together and anchors them to the upper teeth with lugs. When uttering words, the person who wears this device imperceptibly clenches his throat muscles. For practice he utters the word "giggle." This shuts off the upper pharynx. In inhaling, the throat is relaxed as in normal individuals...