Word: stomachly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pituitary gland, of which Dr. Evans is the master, is only one of nine organs positively known to secrete hormones. Of these organs, the stomach, intestine and pancreas are not ''ductless glands." "Ductless glands" are the pituitary, the thyroid and the parathyroids (they lie in the neck), the adrenals (one rests on each kidney), the ovaries and the testes, all of which came in for attention fortnight ago at the meeting of the American Medical Association in Milwaukee...
Every time I read about the Hoover Dam controversy, I have a recurrence of the same sickish feeling in the pit of my stomach, that I had when I first read of a suggestion to change the name...
Because he was so imprudent as to fill his slack old stomach with a few dates soaked in water, St. Gandhi lay on a couch last week speechless from stomach ache at the wedding of his plump son Devadas to Miss Luxmi Raja Gopal Achariar, daughter of a Nationalist Congress leader...
...comments on peace pacts and disarmament conferences: "As though you could take out an injunction against a bayonet in your stomach or make a neat point against chaos...
...Panayoti Tsaldaris. Startled internes leaped forward, helped 68-year-old M. Venizelos, who was unscathed, to lift from the floor of the car the limp body of his rich wife. Blood oozed from her clothing. After a hasty examination doctors found that four bullets had grazed her lungs and stomach but that she would live. Dead lay a Venizelos bodyguard...