Word: painful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morristown, N. J., Mrs. Walter E. Wilke drove her car into a tree. She backed off, drove on. A policeman noticed the car weaving, leaped on the running board, pulled the emergency brake, hospitalized Mrs. Wilke who complained of a pain in her neck. Shortly, Mrs. Wilke died of her broken neck...
...Nanking, China. I have just returned from a visit to the front in the Shanghai area. The sight of thousands of wounded soldiers patiently waiting at every first-aid station for transportation to hospitals in the rear wrings my heart, despite their magnificent bravery and resignation to pain...
Decay, the cause of most dental agony, has been climinated with the perfection of a new test-and-diagnosis protedure by Northwestern University scientists working under Dental Dean A. D. Black. Follow this COLLEGIATE DIGEST Picture Story to learn the steps of the new pain-climinating process...
...involving a uniform listening technique, reference tone, and zero level. Some loudnesses measured on this scale are: ticking of watch at 3 ft., 30 phons; tearing of paper at 3 ft., 40; quiet conversation, 60; noisy conversation, 70; noisy truck, 90; proximity of airplane engine, 120; near threshold of pain...
...other Exchange excitement could be laid entirely at war's door. Wheat jumped 3? a bushel one day on the Chicago and Winnipeg markets on a general war scare. Japanese bonds, in spite of a rally, stood 15 points below their price three weeks ago-a pain to U. S. banks which hold them as collateral for loans to Japan...