Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toothbrush with a rubber bulb on the handle, for rinsing the teeth while brushing...
January 9, Harry R. De Silva, lecturer on Motor Vehicles Administration, "Men, Motor Cars, and Alcohol"; January 16, Shields Warren, assistant professor of Pathology, "Cancer"; January 23, Paul E. Boyle, instructor in Pathology, "Teeth"; January 30, Frederick E. Russel, professor of Preventive Medicine, "Progress in Preventive Medicine...
...waists, submerges the lower end of the tubular escape hatch. Presently the hatch cover is raised, a line attached to a cork buoy shoots upward to the surface and the men don "escape lungs," resembling hot-water bags. Then with clips holding their noses and mouthpieces gripped between their teeth, the crew in alphabetical order follow the escape line by easy stages to the surface...
...buff little creatures began to dance through his ebbing and flowing consciousness. Everything was swaying as though motivated by a giant dish-washing machine. Oh! that dull throbbing around the temples! that clammy, sticky, dry, clogged feeling in his throat and upper tonsils. Would those mittens on his teeth ever wear off? Little pricks and barbed darts of conscience began to torment him as he thought of that ten page paper for Slavic Oology due tomorrow, and on which he had put absolutely no work whatsoever. The professor had been noticing his absences of late, so that would make...
...long could he remain in naught but pyjamas, as the damp, cutting winds of Cambridge's marshes blew icy little gusts through the half open window, and set his teeth achattering, and the gooseflesh arising. Oozing out of bed, the Vag pried open both eyelids, put his left foot into his right slipper, and his right foot into his left slipper, and stumbled off to the shower...