Word: saws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harding has been the high scorer so far, despite the fact that he saw only a few minutes of action in the opener last Tuesday, with three goals and an assist to his credit. Close behind him are Patrick, Winslow and Eaton, who have each made two goals to date...
...supplicant walnut men, the University of California's College of Agriculture invented a machine in which the walnuts ride on whizzing belts past a buzzsaw. The buzz-saw nicks a groove in the shells of the nuts. Then, as the nuts pass a tiny aperture, an explosive charge of acetylene and oxygen is shot into each nut. The nut then drops into an ignition chamber where a gas flame ignites the charge. Pop! goes the walnut. Most of the shells drop into one hopper, the meats into another...
...Kellogg appointed as general director of the Foundation Dr. Stuart Pritchard, onetime president of the National Tuberculosis Association. Dr. Pritchard went to work in seven counties near Battle Creek† First he persuaded these counties to establish health departments, with the Foundation footing most of the bills. He saw that youngsters got medical examinations and treatment (free, when necessary), that mothers had doctors to help deliver their babies, that sanitary engineers told people how to dispose of their sewage. But he soon concluded that this sort of thing was like patching a rusty roof...
...improve the schools, however, Dr. Pritchard saw that he had to educate the adults who ran them. So he provided tuition in universities and psychiatric clinics for groups of teachers, supervisors, school board members, ministers, newspaper editors, physicians, nurses, dentists, veterinarians. The Foundation also offered to help build new schools. At first the inhabitants voted down these offers, were apathetic to this attempt to lift the general level of living of the whole community. But gradually the Foundation saw to it that the schools acquired toilets and electric lights, better instruction and medical attention, and in general the darkened communities...
...Douthwaite and Lintott had noticed that many patients suffered heartburn after taking aspirin. They collected 16 patients who were willing to endure the discomfort of a gastroscope, gave them three tablets of aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) crushed in one ounce of water. Through the gastroscope the doctors saw most of the 16 glistening pink stomachs turn at once to a "dusky...