Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many of the smaller fly-by-night companies whose names are take-offs or whose business methods are modeled on the older and more established firms, should be avoided...
...hormones, have been extremely satisfying, as in the case of Dr. Lorenz. The Steinach operation is performed, however, on young men-the potential fathers, heads of families-with great reluctance. In some cases-from sexual excesses, from overwork, from disease-spermatozoa production has fallen off or ceased entirely. In "older" men, usually in those who have reached their sixties, similar falling off or cessation occurs. For such the operation is beneficial. They will pep up, with all the connotations this vulgate word implies...
...Bradford is now 78. five years older than Dr. Lorenz. They studied the correction of congenital hip malformation together. Bradford worked out a technique with the scalpel. Lorenz preferred to use his muscles. Dr. Bradford has been Dean since 1912 and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery since 1903. In 1895 he issued his expertise on Orthopedic Surgery an authoritative' text...
...cranium form the brain case. They are the occipital, the two parietals, the frontal, the two temporals, the sphenoid (wedge-formed) and the ethmoid (sieve-formed). At birth these bones are not completely joined, the jointure being fulfilled by membranes, which change into bone as the person grows older...
...played together. The name of the one was Dick McDevitt (six years old)*; the name of the other was Ruff (an Airedale). While they did not actually talk to each other, they had found that by pats, grimaces and tender looks, they could communicate better than much older people. In the daytime the great crinkly dog padded by the side of the boy, whose head barely reached his shoulder; at night he curled at the foot of the boy's bed. Nothing could ever separate them, they thought−but something did. It was an automobile. It struck Ruff...