Word: throat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole situation was a hot professional chestnut for Dr. Connell to handle. An eye-ear-nose-&-throat specialist, he found that he could often dissolve cataracts by injecting them with a filtrate of a liquid produced by certain germs bred on cataracts extracted from blind persons. That nitrate contained enzymes similar to. although not related to, pepsin, which in the stomach dissolves every meal...
After a Viennese ear & throat specialist had eased a pain in one of his ears. Edward of Wales last week shot a chamois in the Austrian Alps, stuffed the beard in his pocket, departed for Germany to continue his holiday. Meantime. Britons goggled at the latest picture of their future King-Emperor, taken just before he quit the French Riviera...
...lovers, all great, beefy, stalwart fellows, around the Prince, so that all his movements were reported to her. The aging de Condé, feeble, crippled, harried night & day, was nagged, abused, tormented, once appeared with a badly bruised eye, once screamed that Sophie was trying to cut his throat, eventually signed the will that Sophie demanded. He had said he would be killed if he ever signed...
...throat operation performed on Orator Hitler last May, two days after he displayed great hoarseness in his full- length oration to the Reichstag (TIME, June 3), was officially announced last week to have been for the removal of a polyp or outgrowth from the mucous membrane. Called "successful," the polypectomy was said to have cured Hitler's hoarseness...
...trucking is still the province of nearly 300,000 independent trucking outfits. For years Mr. Keeshin has been trying to persuade truckmen to stop cut throat competition, fix rates. Says he : "There simply was not sufficient honor among them to stick together." Like most big truckmen, he finally asked for Federal regulation. Last week Mr. Keeshin was prime proof of the contention that the new Motor Carrier Law, placing trucks under the Interstate Commerce Commission (TIME, Aug. 19), will help both railroads and big trucking companies at the expense of small, hand-to-mouth trucksters...