Word: scatterers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...adopted his aviation code in one magnificent sweep. Next, it was the Nation, when, in the first fortnight of the Hoover Administration he was called to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. More exactly, this new environment is the Nation's Navy, for David Ingalls does not scatter his attention. All the force of his irresistible enthusiasm is given to the particular team he is playing on. Believing that Army Aviation (directed by his Yale and Wartime friend, Frederick Trubee Davison) had received more than its share of public support, he immediately set out to equal the score...
When 60 armed civilians and soldiers stormed the Presidential Palace in Lima it was only a short day's work for Col. Cerro's troops to scatter them with machine gun fire, chase them eight miles down to the Port of Callao (where T. R. H. were saluted fortnight ago) and end the No. 1 revolution there, after some 60 persons had been slain (one of them Reginald A. Skidmore of the Grace Line, killed by a stray bullet while playing billiards at the Strangers' Club...
...TIME in its Oct. 17 issue reported that Dr. Allen Buckner Kanavel, president of the American College of Surgeons, said that "The coagula tion caused by the [electro] cautery is more likely to scatter malignant growths than to retard or destroy them." TIME was misinformed. President Kanavel's opinion is "quite the opposite...
...Scatter thou the people that delight in war."-Psalms...
...lumbering horse car."-Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly, Baltimore. It permits elegant excision of cancer ramifications and delicate areas of the brain. It may permit operations of the spinal cord. But President-elect Allen Buckner Kanavel, Chicago, pointed out that coagulation caused by the cautery is more likely to scatter malignant growths than to retard or destroy them...