Word: sore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midriff of yellow Saturn, behind its girdle of rings, an immense, glaring white sore, about 7,000 miles across, broke out last week. First to see it was Astronomer John Edwin Willis at the Naval Observatory in Washington. Although it was after midnight, he routed out the observatory's superintendent, who flashed the news to Harvard Observatory, whence it was relayed to observatories the world over. White spots have been descried on Saturn before, one on the equator in 1876, several in the northern hemisphere in 1903. Astronomers could not find out what produced them. Last week every device...
Jolson (leaving Hollywood "for the last time")-If I ever see that fellow again I'll let him have it. I'm still mad; good and sore, in fact...
While trade associations were beginning to find out just how drastically the White House expected to see their industries reformed, drug men met in Manhattan to form a Drug Institute of America. They, too, were preparing a code. Not labor and wages, but prices and competition are the sore spots of the drug business...
Because the shoulder of George V, 68. was too sore with rheumatism to bear the weight of gold epaulets. Edward of Wales plunged himself into a black bearskin beehive, waved goodbye to his father who watched from a palace window in a grey sack suit and panama hat, and took the salute at the traditional Trooping the Color on the King's birthday. All in scarlet & blue the Brigade of Guards marched stiffly past, Coldstreams, Grenadiers, Scots, Irish and Welsh. The Life Guards and the Blues rode by in their glittering breastplates, and at their ancient post of honor...
...Then he deliberately set about getting his own hands infected. He dipped them repeatedly in his phage solution, soon saw them healing up. Word of his success brought other skin sufferers to the Aquarium. One man said his affliction had resisted treatment for 20 years. His hands were so sore and scaly that he could not close them. After plunging them in the phage solution several times a week for three months he could grip a golf club. Last week Researcher Coates had 18 other favorable treatments to report...