Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Young in years and mentally alert, he could hardly speak. His head was swathed in bandages. He had undergone two successive operations in which his whole upper jaw, excepting two front teeth, and most of his lower jaw had been removed. All the remaining bone tissue of his body was slowly disintegrating, and holes were actually forming in his skull...
Byers did not know that his case was hopeless until two weeks ago. Autopsy last week revealed that he had only six teeth left. Both jaws were rotted. His brain was abscessed. Distributed through his bones, calculated Dr. Frederick Bonner Flinn of Columbia University, were 36 micrograms of radium. Ten micrograms is a fatal quantity...
...MacLeish has developed an exciting, 2,000-line narrative poem. His terza rima stanzas have no rhyme, but instead a subtle assonance. The story opens with Cortes' embarkation at Santiago de Cuba for the west, against the command of Velasquez, the Spanish Governor. Across the Gulf, in the teeth of Velasquez' organized opposition, they work their way to Cempoala on the Mexican coast. Here the weary men, learning that all of the ships but one have been destroyed to prevent their deserting, grow mutinous. Cortes, bidding them to go back if they will, quiets them with his taunts...
...Oldoway stood 5 ft. 10½ in. He had long legs and a long narrow head. His nose was big, his upper lip long, his jaw and chin massive. He looked like many a Hamite still to be seen in Northeastern Africa. To Professor Reck, Oldoway's lower teeth seemed filed to points, a fashion current among certain living African tribes...
...same-175 Ib.-and he still likes to wrestle at the New York Athletic Club. Also he plays good golf at Southampton, L. I. with his friend Publisher Wilfred John Funk. More than golf or wrestling he likes chess. He is rarely seen without a pipe between his teeth...