Word: sinus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back (along with some 75,000 like him) the new civil servant had landed in the Capital, his fever patriotically high, his eyes star-spangled, his shoes freshly whitened. He had pitched in to help win the war. Things looked different now. Now he cursed his Congressman, his tortured sinus, his lumpy boardinghouse bed, the humid streets, the dismal food, the bus service. Mostly, this week, he brooded about his tardy paycheck...
Week after the beginning of her Manhattan vacation, heart-faced Claudette Colbert took her sinus sniffles to a hospital, rested under the care of her doctor husband, Lieut. Commander Joel Pressman...
...first U.S. trials of a sulfa drug was made in 1936 on a sinus infection of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (he was cured). Since then interest in sulfa cures has centered around other infections-pneumonia, gonorrhea, streptococcus diseases. But last week Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Specialist Roland F. Marks of the University of California Medical School announced that sulfathiazole treatment for maxillary sinusitis (inflammation of cheek sinuses) improved 70% of his patients in three or four weeks. He recommends that doctors try the drug before resorting to surgery...
...never been quite the same man since. . . . Besides the broken nose, I had two bent ribs and a crushed sinus in my cheek that gave me fainting spells for years...
...about time that lovers of hot music had a chance to listen to it in comfortable seats, without getting sinus trouble, and free from the compulsion to get junky with cut whiskey at speakeasy prices...