Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope no future Foreign Secretary will ever be put in the position in which I found myself," said the First Lord last week at Edinburgh. "That state of affairs must never occur again!" To remedy it the Admiralty will build more warships, Sir Samuel said, and went on to announce momentously that the Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defense, appointed to probe the "bombers v. battle ships" controversy, has now unanimously recommended against the substitution of fighting aircraft for British capital ships. "When the country hears more of the question," summed up Sir Samuel, "there will...
...upperclassman who is the Freshman's host must countersign the inter-House eating slip. The privilege will not apply on the occasions of special House dinners. It is understood that if unexpected loads on any of the House dining halls should occur too frequently, it may be necessary to require advance notice or else to limit the number of guests at any one time...
Firmly established is the Slye doctrine that susceptibility to cancer is inherited as a recessive Mendelian character, transmitted by a single gene. Resistance to the disease is a dominant character, and represses, but does not obliterate, the susceptibility factor whenever they occur together. A resistant individual mated to a susceptible one will have resistant offspring. But these offspring carry the susceptibility gene concealed in their germ plasm, and if they mate with susceptibles the second generation will be liable to cancer. The Slye mice show that not only inherited susceptibility but also some injury or chronic irritation is necessary...
...osteopathic physician should rejoice that he has at his command a system of midwifery which utilizes the body's resources, thereby tending to produce healthy young. This system increases body resistance and safeguards the patient against diseases that may occur during pregnancy; it shortens the period of labor, reduces pain and minimizes the necessity of using anesthetics as well as the amount in which they are employed. The infant mortality rate in childbirth under osteopathic technique is only 37 per 1,000, as compared with 65 per 1,000 for cases handled by the medical profession. . . . The osteopathic maternal...
...separate kinds of growths in the body: 1) a soft, fleshy mass (Latin mola) in the womb, caused by an ovum which started to become a baby but failed; 2) a pigmented spot (Anglo-Saxon mael) in the skin. According to Dr. Affleck, Mole No. 2 "may occur anywhere on the surface of the body, in the mucous membranes of the upper and lower ends of the digestive tube, and in the eye." It may be covered with coarse hairs. In color it ranges from light brown to black. Color is due to a pigment called melanin...