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Word: stomachly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus Sir Christopher Bullock had his career broken last week without anything specific being brought out against him. Among British aviators, the view was that Sir Christopher is easily worth ten of the men who investigated and broke him. A wounded War veteran with a silver tube in his stomach, the ousted Permanent Secretary of the Air Ministry was brilliant, driving, egotistical, efficient and a master of every technique in Government aviation except watching his tongue and saying the regulation thing where other and silkier Civil Servants were concerned. As for Sir Eric Geddes, airmen assumed that he was vexed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Incorrupt Indiscretion | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

...General Hospital, were convinced that, when eaten, the essential oils of onion and garlic pass into the blood, are aerated into the lungs and from there breathed out. In proof, they offered the results of an experiment on a patient whose mouth was blocked off from his stomach by a cancer of the esophagus, who could receive nourishment only through a tube in the abdominal wall. Through this tube the experimenters introduced garlic soup. Three hours later the patient's breath began to smell, continued to do so for twelve hours. In this case the pungent food was never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Garlic Breath | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

...This patient's breath was inhaled and exhaled through a tube inserted in the windpipe. Three hours after he ate salad garnished with onion and garlic, the air exhaled through the tube became malodorous. In this instance the breath had no contact with the mouth, throat, esophagus or stomach, must therefore have picked up the contamination in the lungs. Unwilling to trust their own sense of smell entirely, Drs. Blankenhorn & Richards called in technicians, hospital internes and residents who had no idea what the experiments were designed to prove. None of these observers had any difficulty identifying the subjects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Garlic Breath | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

...being stricken by the age of 25. Of the 174 living and dead who reached that age, 41 (23.6%) developed cancers of one sort or another. One noteworthy fact about this ill-fated family is that 20 of the men, six of the women died of cancer of the stomach or of the bowels. Fifteen women died of cancer of the womb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: G's Family | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...Please darken the leggin's in front of Pheidippides' stomach. From a distance this gives him the appearance of potgut. Don't you think him a shade pink for a warrior? And WHAT is that black face behind Miltiades? It is only because we are very enthusiastic that we would dare offer a suggestion. We see it from a distance as it will mostly be seen. It will be a fine mural. PLEASE get on P's potgut though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: World's Arms | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

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