Word: stream
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made in our day to the relief of human suffering. . . Rheumatism, arthritis, myocarditis, gastric ulcer, nephritis, vascular disease and diabetes; have ceased to be vague expressions of a wrathful god and have become infectious in origin . . . the infection having been carried to the organs involved in general blood stream, itself infected from superficially situated foci of infection resident in the teeth and tonsils. . . . The consequence of these discoveries has been a complete reversal of many of our older clinical points of view and its utilization has altered in most significant fashion all medical, surgical and dental practice...
...pleasure; some four or five miles away were the trees and towers of the college. Before Dr. Baker stood "Quail Hill," an old, boarded-up Georgian house whose owners used to entertain him and his wife. Dusk fell. Presently the weary, 66-year-old pedagog stumbled, fell by a stream near the highway. In the night a wind & rain storm beat down on "Quail Hill...
Examiners encounter a varied set of answers to tests calculated to ascertain the mental ages of the children by means of having them explain various pictures. One, portraying a loving couple with supplies, being paddled down a stream in a canoe was explained as a kidnaping, a picnic, a couple sick of life and about to jump off at Niagara, and just a picture of a boy friend and a girl friend. Loyalty to the family likeness upset one test when it was found that a little girl of fire was insisting that the homely woman in the test...
Jesus Carranza, 24, son of Mexico's onetime (1917-20) President Venustiano Carranza, took his first flying lesson at Valley Stream, L. I. Four years ago his cousin, Capt. Emilio Carranza, "Lindbergh of Mexico," died attempting a non-stop flight from Manhattan to Mexico...
...Loon's breezy mnemonic method of imparting knowledge he explains earthquakes by a pile of books, what is happening to the earth's surface by half-a-dozen clean handkerchiefs, the central Spanish plateau with a soup plate, two saucers and a spoon. The inner workings of the Gulf Stream, the puzzle of which is latitude and which is longitude, are other mysteries brightly revealed...