Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While these experimental studies were in progress," the doctors were called on to treat severe back and chest burns of a 15-year-old girl. They gently bathed her in soap and water, but gave her no tannic acid, permitted only occasional mouthfuls of water to moisten her throat, and placed her in an oxygen tent...
...Contrary to popular opinion, no vaccine, serum or drug has yet been devised that will give immunity, check the progress of the disease, or prevent final paralysis. Most polio workers now believe that the virus enters the body through the nose. Two years ago, Dr. Edwin William Schultz of Stanford University tried to protect 5,000 Toronto school children against the disease by flushing their noses with antiseptic zinc sulfate solution. The experiment, said Dr. Schultz in the new Bulletin, was a flat failure. But doctors still think nasal sprays a hopeful idea, hope some other chemical may prove more...
...think of those stubborn fanatics who still cling to the twisting tail of the party line, I do not believe that there need be any confusion "about the role of the communist in a liberal coalition." The role of the communist has always been a strictly disciplined progress along the narrow path of his party's policy. Previous to August 1939 this policy happened to coincide largely with that of these individuals who are perforce vaguely termed liberals. The H. S. U. meeting was but one indication of the fact that these two policies no longer coincide. For this reason...
Other industries have borne similar loads of taxes and wages but few have had to face such entrenched unions as the railroad brotherhoods, which resolutely resist the march of technological progress. Even when improvements sped up schedules the brotherhoods prevented any savings and successfully insisted on "featherbedding" which means paying crews on a mileage basis. They draw eight hours pay for 100 miles on a freight, 150 miles on a passenger train. Many "featherbed" crews now draw eight hours pay for runs of less than four hours...
...thing worth getting up at six o'clock in the morning to go down and see! But now--well, Christmas is losing all its glamor. A tour of the toy departments of the department stores shows that you've not been standing still. Yours toys have been making great progress. Today's youngsters have it swell. Vag felt very lonesome the other day as the peered with amazement at some of the toys ticketed for lucky kids on the 25th...