Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that I (or anyone else, as far as I know) has ever been "hired by the U.S. Secret Service to smell out Communism in the University" as your article so boldly states. What is of greatest concern to me, personally, is your impudence in placing those words in my mouth. Your positive statement that I said I "had been hired by the U.S. Secret Service" is utterly false and a very bold lie. I have never said anything of the sort, and it simply is not true. . . . WILLIAM H. HAIGHT...
These tidings so distressed Prime Minister MacDonald in Scotland last week that he broke off his vacation at Lossie-mouth and flew 540 mi. to London, alighting at dawn to hurry to the Foreign Office. After all it was the MacDonald Government which withdrew the British mandate over Irak last year (TIME, Oct. 17), entertained King Feisal in London during the past June season. When King Feisal was in London fullest royal honors were paid to the "new nationhood" of Irak by Christian King George V who feted his royal Mohammedan guest at Buckingham Palace. With Assyrians being massacred last...
...Shinto belief is to venerate the Sun Goddess, Great Ancestress of the Imperial House. To pray for the welfare of the Japanese Emperor is to pray for the welfare of the whole nation. Next thing is to seek Cleanliness and Purity (washing the hands and if possible rinsing the mouth before approaching a shrine) and to avoid the contamination of Death and Blood. Out of Shinto 95 years ago emerged Japan's Mary Baker Eddy, Mrs. Miki Nakayama. She received her God, preached his doctrine that man is created for Happiness. She wrote psalms, performed cures. Like Mrs. Eddy...
...gumboils. For extractions they used a fearsome instrument called "the pelican," precursor of the Stillson wrench. It always got the offending tooth usually accompanied by one on each side and one above. To keep teeth healthy the 16th Century dentist advised eating a mouse once a month, fumigating the mouth with smoke from onion seeds...
...Millions of teeth were pulled a generation ago. . . . Our objective today is to save these millions of teeth. . . . There has been no spectacular innovation in dentistry in the last few years, but there have been outstanding developments in our understanding of the effects of childhood care on the adult mouth. . . . With proper care starting in early childhood, before the first molars appear, there is no reason why every person should not have most of his teeth at the age of three-score-&-ten." In the past 50 years, said Dr. Black, the U. S. dental profession has spent...