Word: orals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those few reporters who wanted dental information for their readers. He is a big, bald man, ponderous in movement, pontifical in talk. Son of a doctor and one of the few U. S. dentists with a medical degree, he is a triple specialist - exodontia (tooth-pulling), roentgenology (xray) and oral surgery. His dental constituents admire him for being on the staff of four Nashville hospitals, for working in his office 10 to 15 hours daily, for reading no books or magazines except those which "concern my work," for having "no time for civic interests or detective stories...
...outstripped the ordinary bounds of showmanship. He promised not only installation of his "grandeur" proscenium-filling screen, and cinema houses devoted to newsreels, but magnificently he offered one fourth of his fortune (which newsmen were permitted to estimate at $36,000,000) to develop visual-oral instruction in schools. "On the theory," he said, "that one picture is the equivalent of eight words" and that words uttered by college presidents are more potent than those of ordinary teachers, Mr. Fox visualized the time when 15,000,000 or 20,000,000 school children will have school hours reduced from...
...student also participates in the pediatric examination of the cases and has pointed out to him the significance of the physical and environmental findings of the child's past and present history, as possible explanations for oral conditions found...
Great Britain, Irish Free State, Turkey, Norway, Greece were other complainants. Notably absent from the list were Canada and the A-B-C powers of South America. Canada, protested informally, in an oral statement by Minister Vincent Massey hinting at a high Canadian wheat tariff in retaliation for the proposed U. S. duties on lumber and shingles. Having had the list published, Senator Harrison next engaged Senator Smoot in an altercation on what the protests signified. Senator Smoot at first belittled them, called them "unimportant . . . similar in substance to former protests." Senator Harrison called them the result...
...coming year, this course to run throughout the entire academic year. This probably is the first course of its kind devoting this amount of time to the subject to be given under university auspices. Plans are under way for the further development of a graduate course in oral surgery, which is also greatly needed...