Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bankrupt. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, 67, General Overseer of Zion City, Ill.; with liabilities of more than $1,000,000, assets of between $600,000 and $800,000; in Chicago. Overseer Voliva, who eats Brazil nuts and buttermilk and believes the world is shaped like a soup-plate, has been trying to salvage his Zion Institutions and Industries Inc.-candy bar, cookie and lace factories, cement plant, bakery, bank, department store and publishing house-since 1933. Its assets were 87? in 1907, $10,000,000 in 1927, $6,000,000 in 1932. Subsequently Rev. Voliva tried to reorganize Zion Industries under...
...grey background the 32 teeth are shown 1) as they look from the front, with their roots outlined, 2) as they look from the inside of the mouth. On that design dentist or layman may clearly mark every peculiarity, filling, inlay, pivot tooth, bridge or plate in every mouth. Lest one human peculiarity escape attention of dental identificationists, Dr. Ryan pointed out that the shape of the face, roof of the mouth and the two upper front teeth usually correspond. A squarefaced man will have square upper front teeth, square mouth roof...
...Fitz-Gibbon solves the problem by taking a soft wax cast of the defective mouth. He makes a thin gold plate for the hard palate and a flattened, hollow gold bulb for the soft palate. He solders these together and anchors them to the upper teeth with lugs. When uttering words, the person who wears this device imperceptibly clenches his throat muscles. For practice he utters the word "giggle." This shuts off the upper pharynx. In inhaling, the throat is relaxed as in normal individuals...
...Palace of Holyroodhouse, where the King and Queen were to stay for nearly a week, everything was spick & span. Ready laid out for them was the cutlery, plate and napery provided-to encourage royal visits-by the late Sir Alexander Grant, biscuit tycoon, great Scottish patriot and boyhood friend of James Ramsay MacDonald (TIME, June...
...Antoine Henri Becquerel of France left some uranium salts lying in the dark near a photographic plate. When he developed the plate he found that some sort of rays from the uranium, passing through a metal container and several other obstacles, had left an image on the plate. Thus by accident Becquerel, who shared a Nobel Prize with Pierre and Marie Curie, discovered radioactivity...