Word: polyps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he diagnosed Hitler's ailment as a "simple polyp" (small benign growth, round and stemmed like a pea), on his larynx, Hitler refused at first to believe him. The Chancellor had been convinced that he had cancer. Removal of the polyp from the larynx, a simple throat-cutting operation that many a physician (and layman) would be glad to have the chance to do for Herr Hitler, was very easy...
...throat operation performed on Orator Hitler last May, two days after he displayed great hoarseness in his full- length oration to the Reichstag (TIME, June 3), was officially announced last week to have been for the removal of a polyp or outgrowth from the mucous membrane. Called "successful," the polypectomy was said to have cured Hitler's hoarseness...
Like a fertile polyp, another of Russia's vast, unwieldy government bureaus subdivided itself last week, continued to function. In obedience to Dictator Stalin's injunction for decentralization, the Supreme Economic Council was subdivided into three new commissariats: Heavy Industry, Light Industry, Lumber...