Word: teethes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rowdy Democrats from dingy Pawtucket, five miles away, seemed to be approaching on two quarters, armed to the teeth. The Pawtucket Star, a weekly established to bait the Journal, was to become a daily tabloid, change its title to Rhode Island Star. Back of the Star was Pawtucket's Democratic Mayor Thomas P. McCoy. Back of him was Walter E. O'Hara, managing director of Pawtucket's Narragansett race track. Announcing the change, the Star defied the Journal-Bulletin owners as "money barons and sweatshop operators." And, as if this disturbance in the Journal's back...
...Council moved its headquarters from grubby lower Manhattan near Cooper Union to prosperous West 57th Street near Calvary Baptist Church. For the star attraction of their dedication program they invited non-Jewish Dr. Victor Hugo Sears to give them his first formal explanation of a new kind of false teeth...
...biting surfaces of natural teeth are irregular. The pressure on them in biting and chewing is therefore irregular. They can stand this because they are firmly fixed in their sockets. A set of false teeth, because they are fixed to removable plates, rock in the jaws and hurt the gums, sometimes the bones...
...Sears prevents that by making his patients chew like cows and sheep. He makes the surface of false bicuspids and molars practically flat, sets the bicuspids and first molars a little higher in their cases than the other false teeth, and a trifle offset. This compels the lower jaw to move straight up and down against the upper jaw, instead of in the natural scissors movement. The extra height of the middle teeth prevents Dr. Sears's patients from shutting their jaws completely. Only way to do that and to bite into food is to thrust out the lower...
William Frederick Gericke was born on a Nebraska farm, educated at Ohio State, Johns Hopkins, California. He is tall, stoop-shouldered, sparse-haired, 51. When newshawks ask him whether he expects to make a lot of money out of hydroponics, he just smiles, shows two gold teeth...