Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What a world of difference is there between give-and-take living talk and the stale dead ashes of conversations raked over and microscopically dissected after many months! "The whole atmosphere and emphasis are changed. Transitions from one subject to another are blurred. Phrases taken from the context and subjected to a frigid post-mortem are hardly recognizable...
Albert Payson Terhune is a big, beefy man who cultivates untidy hair and a vast reputation for knowing and loving dogs. On the subject of Man's Best Friend, he has written millions of well-paid words. Last week small Editor Morris Fishbein of the American Medical Association's Journal editorially jumped roundly upon large Mr. Terhune for injudicious talk about rabies...
...Another subject could eat normally, but his respiratory tract had been disconnected from his throat because of laryngeal cancer. 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...
...Vatican Voice: The radio priest's action caused a painful impression here. We have received thousands of letters on the subject. But the Holy Father does not desire to take action on the matter unless in conjunction with the Bishop of the diocese. Bishop Gallagher is coming on his own initiative, to explain his ideas in regard to Father-how do you say} Coshlin? Cooglin...
Cotton is a complicated subject on a domestic basis. On a world scale it is staggering. Aside from the difficulties introduced by foreign exchange and local preferences, international cotton merchants have to think, deal, quote in terms of a thousand different kinds of cotton. In the U. S. alone official standards specify 37 different grades on quality, 20 grades on staple length, offering in combinations no less than 740 possibilities. Will Clayton s not only an international cotton merchant but a profound student of economics. When he travels, usually by plane, his brief case is always jammed with earned tracts...