Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cache. In Pocatello, Idaho, police investigating a pool-hall theft noticed a suspicious bulge on Cecil Jones's face, forced open his mouth, extracted fourteen $20 bills...
...moaned. "I'm not trying to alibi a silly statement," he said, "but I can't even ride. Oh, why didn't I keep my big mouth shut?" As he spoke, there was a lot of commotion. A destroyer-transport had come alongside, put a big packing case into a sling, sent it over to the Missouri. It was the saddle...
...amusement park at the mouth of the Detroit River in Lake Erie, bandits escaped with $10,000. There were bank stickups at Blenheim and at Bath. Two gunmen took $11,000 from messengers of a Toronto trucking company. Then four gunmen, surprised while robbing a Toronto automobile dealer's office, shot it out with police and escaped...
...disappointed were Europe's little businessmen. For reasons of its own, ANLC had divided the surpluses into almost prohibitive lots. To be sold in one bunch were: 1) $827,808 worth of auto batteries; 2) $100,000 lots of telephones, radios and medical gadgets; 3) 50 Denhardt mouth gags (a bargain at $3.49 apiece) if the purchaser also agreed to buy a few thousand jar covers, mustard pots and large ladles...
Teeth grow from tiny buds (tooth germs) which are present in the gums at birth. Drs. Harry H. Shapiro of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons and Bernice L. Maclean of Hunter College removed some buds from week-old kittens, transplanted them to the mouths of other kittens and full-grown cats. Result (as reported in the Journal of Dental Research) : all the buds grew into full-size teeth. Eventually, said Dr. Shapiro last week, it may be possible to take a tooth bud from a child whose second teeth are obviously going to be crowded...