Word: sore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city proper, Nelson Johnson rises at seven, eats a hearty breakfast (Sundays he has the staff in for waffles and chicken). He rides to the Embassy Office in a four-coolie sedan with specially strong bamboo lift-poles. There he reads and answers 40-odd telegrams from China sore-spots each day. If there is a big rush on, he helps decode messages. Some errand may take him to the Foreign Minister, less frequently to the Finance Minister, very seldom to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In the evening he occasionally gives a stag dinner (his wife and two children live...
...State inhabitants. Only ways to prevent silicosis in the mines are to wet down the "working faces" and muck piles of zinc, ventilate the mines with fresh air, provide gas masks for the miners. Since the U. S. Bureau of Mines made a special study of the Tri-State sore spot 25 years ago, the report admits, the better mining companies have done much to improve silicosis precautions. But "wetting down," particularly in smaller mines, is not enforced, and gas masks are too uncomfortable for daily use. In 1927 a "model" silicosis clinic was established at Picher, Okla., but clinic...
...outside the Maginot Line and its forts overlook the German city in the Saar Valley below. The French push of September brought other artillery up to assist Forbach's in dominating Saarbrücken, paralyzing its industry. The French retreat in October left Forbach sticking out like a sore thumb. By last week the Germans had brought up hundreds of guns where they could shell Forbach from three sides, boxing it completely. To defend it would be costly in men and munitions. To surrender it would be to give Germany a keen moral victory as well as the practical...
Last week Biochemist Paul Leland Kirk of the University of California and a graduate student, Clifton Bennett, announced a sure, swift, new syphilis test. A sore trial for pathologists, the speedy test, invented in 1935 by Dr. George Franklin Laughlen of Toronto, Ont., was fussed over for four years before it could be made practical for general use. Using the new technique and "Laughlen antigen" in 150 syphilis blood samples, Professor Kirk called all the shots, made no false diagnoses...
Quotable Senators were less spicy but just as sore. Said Senator Norris: "I've been in Congress 36 years but I've never seen a Member as dumb as that boy. . . . The movies had a chance to do a good job, but they have given the public only a false, absurd impression." Senator Pepper: "I saw my first professional football game last Sunday." Senator Lodge: "Ridiculous. Just something from Hollywood...