Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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T.W.A., still queasy over its financial troubles, last week had to swallow more bad news. The three-man arbitration board set up to end the T.W.A. strike (TIME, Nov. 4) unanimously awarded basic increases of from $26 to $122 a month for pilots and copilots of T.W.A.'s four-motored DC-4s and Constellations. The boosts were retroactive...
...Problems spring from the same sources as its virtues. Author Brogan's erudition often climbs over the reader's head, his sensitiveness in matters French leads him into pretentious overuse of French words and phrases. Most, readers will be justly irritated, for example, at being obliged to swallow sentences as obscurely pregnant as the following: "In a sense, the noblesse de ĺépée was almost innocent compared with the noblesse de la robe. For the court nobility was at least true to form; the intriguers of oeil-de-boeuf were the spiritual as well...
...much of a success. Like similar pills concocted by the Canadian Navy and the U.S. Army during the war, they are compounded of drugs (scopolamine and a mild barbiturate) to quiet the nerves. Ribbing has a refinement: an injection of the same preparation for victims too far gone to swallow. But the drugs (which are dangerous and should be taken only by a doctor's prescription) are not much help after a victim gets his larynx between his teeth; they work best as a preventive. Partly psychological in effect, they help queasy travelers face the coming ordeal with mild...
Early one morning last week, in East Orange, N.J., four-year-old Tommy Stanley got hold of half an orange. He tried to swallow it, got it stuck in his throat, choked & choked. His father banged him futilely on the back, then yelled for a doctor. Luckily, there was one in the house -Tommy's uncle. Dr. Thomas A. Stanley (a postgraduate surgery student) saw that Tommy was strangling. He seized a kitchen carving knife; there was no time to sterilize it, nor for an anesthetic. While Papa and Mama held Tommy flat on the living room couch...
...increase, it is necessary to evaluate the kind of pressure this body will bring to bear on University policy. Since graduates form an attachment to the College as it was during their own undergraduate days, it is rather hard for them as individuals, or as a group, to swallow and great change in the physical layout or academic philosophy at Harvard. There exists even today a certain lack of enthusiasm among older alumni for the House plan (which has not broken down class unity as was buce feared) and another change, the removal of the Dana-Palmer House in order...