Word: stomached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nervous and physical strain of a 200,000 circulation first edition over, Photo-Facts Editor Delano found himself in a hospital last week. There he can read in Editor Lurton's Your Life: "The high-strung worrier can actually fret himself into serious organic diseases such as stomach ulcers...
...superintendent of the dining halls claims that he must either stand a loss or make a profit, the undergraduate undoubtedly feels that it would suit his stomach better for him to suffer the former. It was admitted that last year the account's of the House dining halls showed a profit; therefore it is too much to expect that the University can at least succeed in breaking even at the end of the present season without either raising the rates or, most dangerous, cheapening the quality...
...carrier, caretaker, chemist and painter's apprentice, itinerant newspaperman. At Stanford University off & on for six years, he treated it as a sort of public library where he read only what took his fancy: physics, biology, philosophy, history. Indifferent to most fiction, he thinks Thackeray passable, cannot stomach Proust because he "wrote his sickness, and I don't like sick writing." He is dead set against publicity, photographs, speeches, believes "they do you damage." Now living in Los Gatos, Calif, since publication of his best-selling Of Mice and Men* (167,000 copies) Mr. Steinbeck can well afford...
...Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, after a stomach operation, in Skagen Jutland; Prince Kimmochi Saionji, 87, Japan's last surviving elder statesman, as a result of "a train ride too soon after luncheon." in Okitsu, Japan; Deaf-mute Teacher Helen Keller, after an abdominal operation, in Rochester, Minn.; Maryland's one-eyed Governor Harry Nice, after an emergency operation for removal of an abscess, in Baltimore...
...demonstration by Dr. J. G. Dillon that not only the human lungs but the bowels breathe. Dr. Dillon, a U. S. emigre practicing in Moscow, explained: "Air which has found access into the stomach and then into the intestines can be sucked into the blood. Especially it is true about oxygen which can dissolve in any liquid of the digestive tract. There is no impediment of anatomic character to such absorption of oxygen through the walls of the digestive tract, for the digestive tract embryologically comes from the same source as the respiratory tract. Comparative physiology presents indisputable proofs...