Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jake Lee (Pat O'Brien) is the hard-shelled, soft-hearted ground superintendent of the Federal Air Lines of Newark, N. J. A onetime pilot named Dizzy Davis (James Cagney) returns to the field to get his old job back. An irresponsible limb to whom blondes & brunettes mean the same thing, his escapades are matched only by the superintendent's reckless loyalty to him. Immediately Dizzy Davis sniffs suggestively at a luscious 19 -year-old aviatrix. To keep an engagement with her, he feigns a heart attack, has a pal (Stuart Erwin) pilot his run. In accordance with...
Heavy ash skis, made under the supervision of the Department of Commerce, may be procured to fit any type of airplane. The wheels are removed, and the skis are equipped to fit right on the axle. On soft snow, the effect is just the same as that given by the pontoons in a seaplane...
...parents. Professor Harold Stearns Vaughan of Columbia University, a surgeon-dentist who has been repairing the gaping roofs of mouths for 30 years, last week gave good cheer. In the American Journal of Surgery he pointed out that their defective speech is primarily due to the failure of the soft palate to close off and separate the nasopharynx (space back of the nose) from the oropharynx (mouth part of the throat). Consequence of such failure is that air which should escape from the mouth, during the enunciation of consonants, vibrates through the nasal cavity and escapes through the nostrils...
Apart from stitching a harelip (best done when a child is two to six weeks of age), and wiring a cleft palate (best done between the second and third year), Dr. Vaughan has devised a method of lengthening the soft palate so that it can effectively close the upper part of the throat, resulting in clear speech...
...inward across the roof of the mouth until they meet at a point midway between the molars. This cutting makes three gores in the roof of the mouth. With a blunt knife Dr. Vaughan separates the two rear gores from the palatine bone. This allows him to slide the soft palate, to which they are attached, backward to the rear wall of the throat. The loose flaps of membrane he then stitches to new positions on the palatine bone. By the time they grow onto the bone and new membrane grows over the bared portions of the bone, the soft...