Word: pills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them a few minutes later slopping home with 294. Not until Sarazen had posted his score did the crowd at the 18th green begin to wonder what had become of Dutra. He and Lawson Little were the last pair in the field. Playing with almost no gallery, taking a pill which his caddy offered him every hour, Dutra, 15 Ib. lighter than when the tournament began, was on the 15th tee, waiting for officials to silence a yapping fox terrier so that he could drive. He had had a 71 on his morning round. Now, to win the tournament...
Johny Kelly gets away from the mark like a flash, after a lunch of sugar, Every mile or so he takes a pill form his little bottle and stokes himself. His bodily machine going under forced oxygen draft with an almost diabetic supply of fuel, he returns to the Athens of America only a few minutes behind the non-Biochemical Finn, Komonen...
During the three years Admiral William Veazie Pratt was Chief of Naval Operations and thus No. 1 professional in the service, he had to swallow many a bitter pill. The London Treaty (1930) put the Navy's future into a diplomatic straitjacket. In the name of peace and disarmament, President Hoover whittled away at its appropriation year after year, almost brought its building program to a standstill. It was Admiral Pratt's grim duty to stand by and watch the U. S. fleet (except for capital ships) dwindle from supposed parity with Great Britain to actual inferiority...
...good results obtained with it, its low toxicity, and the absence of danger, or at least of 'practical danger,' of habituation to it." One dose contains one-quarter grain codeine and one-quarter grain papaverine.* Dosages vary with a cold victim's weight from one pill after breakfast and two at bedtime to one pill after each meal and four at bedtime. This dosage has cured colds in 75 out of 100 people, says Dr. Diehl. His cures include the 35 out of 100 who would recover from a cold with no treatment whatsoever. This high percentage...
...short, when the child doctors develop more than their usual discrimination between such samples of real life as are set before them, they will end by spilling the sugar coating on the wrong pill. It is possible, to be sure, that the sugaring may be abandoned, and criticism of the cinema as art, good or bad, heartily compounded. Only this would be the proper purge for Hollywood greensickness. But the hope is quixotic; the educators' idea will probably have two very different outcomes. First, vast sums will be squandered on equipment which will enable the schools to show their...