Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Surgeon General Hugh S. Gumming asked the House Appropriations Committee to change the name of the U. S. Narcotic Farm at Fort Worth, Tex. "The name would indicate," explained the Surgeon General, "that it is a farm on which we raise narcotics...
Arriving in Mexico City last week ousted Cuban President Grau, a surgeon of nation-wide repute, said: "The fact that the United States recognized Mendieta after five days while they didn't recognize me during my four months as President is easily explained. The whole trouble was that I didn't pay interest on the Cuban debt to the Chase National Bank of New York City, my reason being that I considered theirs an illegal contract made by the [ousted] Tyrant [of Cuba] Machado" (TIME...
...ought to know also that Professor Warren is Ivar Kreuger in disguise. Just a simple matter of skin grafting which any beauty surgeon could perform. How Ivar laughs these days in Washington to think people believe he is dead...
...childhood and old age this generality does not hold. Appendicitis is then dangerous per se. Thus although only one-third of the cases of appendicitis occur at the extremes of life, two-thirds of the deaths from the disease occur before 10 and after 40. Why this is so Surgeon Maes explained last week. The character of the appendix changes as people grow older. In the young the organ contains an abundance of lymphoid tissue, which renders it a particularly good harborer for germs. In the old the appendix largely loses its lymphoid character. Its risks then grow from diseases...
...sailor succeeded a surgeon as President of what red-hot island...