Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Budget Director Daniel W. Bell. Fearing the medicine of reduced Federal spending more than the disease of unbalanced budgets, businessmen, like the New Deal, began to sing a different tune. ¶ In Boston, where she went to visit her son John, convalescing after the removal of four wisdom teeth, Mrs. Roosevelt said to a group of cameramen: "I should think you'd get tired of taking my photograph." Said a rude photographer: "We do." ¶ Later in the week, in her column My Day, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote: "I ... drove over ... to talk for a few minutes with the Prime...
...today appears in resplendent uniform with the spruce, German-trained troops of "Chiang's Own" on posters splashed widely about China (see cut). From Shanghai arrived last week the best picture yet of Chiang's grim, steel-helmeted, Prussian-disciplined regulars advancing recently at Lotien in the teeth of Japanese fire which sprawled some grotesquely as they fell (see cut). Old-style Chinese troops, such as still compose most of the country's forces, would have fled in floppy straw hats, perhaps throwing away their rifles, but salvaging their teakettles and paper umbrellas...
...what occupations the United States indubitably leads the world, I should reply without hesitation, dentistry and plumbing." Yet in the mouth of civilized man he finds a chamber of horrors which shows perfectly well which way human evolution is going. Caries, pyorrhea and malocclusion (failure of upper and lower teeth to engage properly) are rare among savages-"at least until the savage comes in contact with civilization, missionaries, canned foods, groceries and candy.... In my opinion there is one and only one course of action which will check the increase of dental disease and degeneration which may ultimately cause...
Tooth-brushing. "Brushing the teeth is like buttering the baby's heel; it cannot do any harm and it may do some good...
...aware that the man-eating shark has upwards of one hundred thirty teeth arranged in double rows around the upper and lower parts of the jaw. Flat on the sides, these teeth are triangular in shape and sharp at the points. There is only one way to escape a man-eating shark if a person is thrown into the water beside him. Kick the right and left legs alternately and move the arms in a windmill fashion; the prospective victim should also call for help in a sharp tone. If this does not work, go back for further instructions...