Word: teeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...similar decision. Here we are permitted to observe the event. Unfortunately "Wall Around a Pool" is less simply written than the others. The hero's though-stream is tainted with literature, and his phrases sometimes suggest the love-pulps. "You could neck her and yammer love between her teeth and all the time her mind would be skating on that little pool." The heroine talks in the early Noel Coward-Philip Barry manner that used to be known as brittle. The fourth in this group, "Hike in the Spring," by Mr. Clurman, winner last year of the national contest...
Said Dr. Martin, warming to his subject, a mother's emotions have great influence upon her child's teeth, even before the baby is born. A woman who is anxious, apprehensive or resentful during pregnancy may not bother to eat tooth-forming foods (calcium, phosphorus and vitamins). After the child is born, she must be the thermostat to the "emotional climate of the home." A mother who pampers her child never lets him get his teeth into anything. Consider the Eskimos, said Dr. Martin. They "use their teeth for everything, including softening frozen leather," and Eskimos rarely suffer...
...children are treated harshly by their parents, they may become tense and nervous, clench their jaws, grind their teeth. Such habits may cause dental trouble. Often children who are lonely or unwanted have an insatiable craving for sweets, "as if they were trying to make up for the absence of sweetness in their lives...
...fasting before Communion): You can gargle, or use mouthwash, or brush your teeth before Communion, and you do not need to worry about getting rid of every drop. . . . The fast can only be broken by something digestible, so if you chew your fingernails, there is no need to worry...
...value of the North American beaver (Castor canadensis) lies as much in his teeth and his temperament as in his fur. In April, his working season starts. He fells trees with his sharp incisors, dams up a stream with logs, mud, leaves, boughs, increases its depth and area, builds along the water's edge a lodge for his family. He works mostly at night. In November, when the frost sets in, he stops work, seals his home with mud (which soon freezes solid), takes a long rest...