Word: prolonging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Morris Fishbein, 40, editor of the Association's medical journals, vigorously thwacked the widespread idea that operating on the gonads or any other procedure will prolong life. Said he: "A tissue that has died can no more be restored to life than can new elasticity be put into a pair of worn-out suspenders...
...President-Elect had planned to leave Washington last week, was compelled to prolong his stay indefinitely. His proposed Southern vacation will probably not include a trip to the West Indies, though a visit to Havana is still scheduled. Belle Isle, Fla., is the Hoover southern base during his Washington stay...
...advance emissary, to ask in the name of Uruguay that the Hoover's prolong their stay, was John D. Hoover, the President-Elect's first cousin, a native of Carlisle, Pa., who has ranched in Uruguay for 22 years...
...Crimson eleven will enter the clash determined to prolong the list of Freshman victories over Yale to three straight. The past two years have seen a smoothly functioning eleven, keyed to a fighting pitch by Coach E. L. Casey to carry off the honors in hotly-contested battles...
...with a curled lip, Nicolo Machiavelli, watched the puss-in-the-corner competition of petty princes, watched hired captains of mercenaries scheming to prolong their lucrative warfare, watched Ludovico break the unwritten rule of the game and call in Charles VIII, Foreigner, to settle a local dispute, while all Italians smiled, bowed, tossed flowers in the French king's path, stones in his wake. With still more of a curl to his lip, Nicolo watched Savonarola hypnotizing the garish Florentine crowds into demure god-fearing citizenry, and the street gamins into veritable "boyscouts of the Lord." He suspected...