Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still curious about teeth although he has filled them for 40 years, Columbia University's Professor Charles Francis Bodecker proved what few other dentists suspected-that the multitude of very fine passages in the hard dentin and enamel are filled with a fluid which he named "dental lymph...
...Smith and her crippled son, Earl, answered the advertisement. James Bassett drove out to their house. Mrs. Smith engaged him in conversation while Earl hobbled up behind and hit him over the head with a hammer. Then they cut him into pieces, burned part, buried part, and scattered his teeth up and down the road...
...Harvard's only serious mishap so far has been sprinter Torbert MacDonald who was expected to break up the Blue sprint formation. There are reports, also, that Nicky Kerr of Yale pulled a muscle in the hundred at the Penn relays, but Millet and Burlingame will still display the teeth for the Bulldog...
After peering and prying into hundreds of Civilian Conservation Corps mouths, Dentist Edgar Alonzo Waterman of Portland, Ore. last week opened his own and spoke a large mouthful. Said Dentist Waterman: The best U. S. teeth come from Arkansas and Tennessee, the worst from New Jersey, New York and New England...
...explanation, according to Lieutenant Waterman: Southerners are in no hurry, take time to chew; the hard water of Arkansas' Ozark Mountains and of Tennessee's Cumberland Range contains minerals which help to build strong teeth. Easterners are always on the go, gulp and gobble their relatively soft food and water, lack exercise and fresh...