Word: partials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anyone who has ever studied biology must realize that peace is a purely human concept, and that nature is rather partial to the idea of struggle and competition, and that it is doubtful whether Congressman Ludlow can reverse this state of things by a Constitutional amendment, or that our college students help matters much by refusing to join the R.O.T.C...
...Recently I introduced TIME Magazine to the natives of the Soela Island Group Spice Islands, Dutch East Indies. It ran my false teeth a close second for popularity. Dozens of natives came and asked to see me take out my lower partial plate. After three days of this I sprung my copy of TIME on them instead...
...settle it as an isolated problem without discussing the fundamental issues-Britain's rights in her Chinese settlements and her privilege to help whom she pleases in the Sino-Japanese War. The British were heartened when the Japanese eased the blockade of the British Concession at Tientsin; partial milk delivery was resumed, food became more plentiful, and the stripping of British subjects was discontinued...
...partial solution to this problem was explored last week when the U. S. Navy was authorized to open negotiations with the No. 1 U. S. shipbuilder, No. 2 steel unit-Bethlehem Steel Corp.-to buy its West Coast shipyard, helping to free Bethlehem to concentrate on expanding its East Coast shipbuilding capacity hard by its East Coast steel and armor plate shops. Meanwhile Army & Navy men are exploring possibilities of organizing a West Coast steel industry to serve local shipyards...
...Navy that such ear troubles, along with attacks of vertigo (". . . if mild the pilot does not mention it ... if severe, he crashes"), were most often found in older airmen. His conclusion was that normal wear and loss of teeth make jaws shut out of position, cause a partial closure of the Eustachian tubes. His remedy: an up-building of teeth by inlays and other dental means to make a youthful...