Word: teethes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fingertips with acid but failed to obliterate their prints because the job was poorly done (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). The finger prints of another recent murderer, John Hamilton, proved useless to police who found his body a year after his death. Identification of Hamilton was effected because his teeth, most durable part of the human body, were still in his head and because he had been to a dentist who had preserved a chart of his mouth...
...learned to be a scientist from his pal Limo, the Liverpool sailor who jumped ship with him the first time in Vera Cruz. "This Limo wasn't very tall, but he was quite active and strong and full of hell when ashore. One of his front teeth was gone and there was something like a little brad nail came down from the upper gum where the tooth ought to be. He'd had what they call a pivot tooth put in where his own tooth had been broken off with a bottle and then the pivot tooth...
...Harold Aaron Osserman and Abraham Taub. Like Manhattan's Dr. Leroy L. Hartman's painkiller which attracted attention last year (TIME, Feb. 3, 1936), the new obtundent is supposed to deaden the fibrils of nerves which are supposed to run through the dentine of teeth. Critics of the Hartman and Osser-man-Taub anesthetics pointed out that, 1) it is doubtful that dentine contains nerve tissues, 2) the chemicals do not always work, 3) such news makes patients expect too much of a dentist. Commented Dr. Fred R. Adams of Manhattan: "Our problem is not how to avoid...
...Fitz-Gibbon solves the problem by taking a soft wax cast of the defective mouth. He makes a thin gold plate for the hard palate and a flattened, hollow gold bulb for the soft palate. He solders these together and anchors them to the upper teeth with lugs. When uttering words, the person who wears this device imperceptibly clenches his throat muscles. For practice he utters the word "giggle." This shuts off the upper pharynx. In inhaling, the throat is relaxed as in normal individuals...
...side of the world a far different story was coming to its close: the U. S. Navy's great search for Amelia Earhart Putnam and Navigator Fred Noonan, lost in mid-Pacific while flying round the world "for fun" (TIME, July 12, 19). While its commanders gritted their teeth and hoped fervently for no mishaps, 60 of the aircraft carrier Lexington'?, complement of 62 planes took the air near the point where the International Date Line crosses the Equator. Later the searching force was cut to 42 planes. One day the Lexingtons 1,500 sailors roasted under...