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Word: mouthes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swim across Lake Ontario last summer, Toronto's Marilyn Bell felt a gnawing sensation at her middle. A sea lamprey, one of millions of the slimy, eellike creatures that infest the Great Lakes, had sunk its teeth through her bathing suit, and was trying to attach its bloodsucking mouth to her body. It was as bad a moment as Marilyn had in the whole 21-hour ordeal. "I struck hard at it with my hand," she said later, "and my blow knocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: A Surfeit of Lampreys | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...years of bitter poverty Mrs. Patrick Brown, a Dublin bricklayer's wife, bore 22 children, but only 13 lived. Halfway down the line came Christy. He could not hold his head up and his mouth, was lopsided. His hands jerked violently with no coordination; his right leg was equally useless. Doctors told Mrs. Brown that Christy was an imbecile (actually he had cerebral palsy from a brain injury before or during birth) and that his case was hopeless. With the medical knowledge of the early 1930s, the doctors were not far wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Left Foot Foremost | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...building is at least five years away, and meanwhile the student with a toothache is still down in the mouth, as it were. A steady stream of people who want their teeth cleaned or checked prevent him from getting an appointment when he needs one. As a provisional solution, the Dental Clinic might leave some time open each day for only the more serious cases, and if necessary, might refer to outside dentists some of the students with routine problems. This solution would not be so satisfactory as universal false teeth, but it might prevent some unnecessary gnashing and gnawing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dental Dilemma | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...danger to the mother's health or a likelihood that the child will be subnormal. In practice, reports Dr. Pommerenke, it is usually enough for a woman to say that her husband is out of work, or that it will be difficult for the family to feed another mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mabiki | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...govern the universe in any way He chose, Galileo was to put forth no proposition which "necessitated" God to operate in any one fixed way. Galileo abided by the Pope's injunctions, but committed the tactical affront of putting Urban VIII's words and viewpoint in the mouth of the simplest-minded character in the Dialogue, a doctrinaire Aristotelian named Simplicio. The powerful Jesuit faction, which advised the Pope, had no trouble convincing him that he had been made a fool of and that Galileo's views were "potentially more disastrous than Luther or Calvin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Martyr of Thought | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

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