Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next twelve years only a minute wage, plus bed & board. The Treaty of St. Germain, they added bitterly, deprived Austria of all seaports and consequently of her Navy, reduced her Army to 30,000 men (including officers) and limited her "heavier armaments" to 450 machine guns, 60 trench mortars and 90 field guns & howitzers. Each Austrian soldier is permitted to have a gun, but the nation's stock of bullets is limited...
...some rapids. Overboard went duffle bags & data. The two men were alone in a steaming, fever-soaked jungle where only the birds and the tops of the writhing vines saw the sun. Thomas Walsh died in his friend's arms and was buried in a narrow trench scooped out of the rotten ground. Harold Foard was picked up by Indians and carried on to Monzon, Peru. The letter he carried said...
...Village neighborhood. Vacationists have imported many cases from Europe. Partially isolated communities, like colleges, have been able to eradicate the disease when it appeared. At Smith College, Dr. Anna Root Mann Richardson had all infected girls eat and sleep in the infirmary until cured. Vassar declared it had no trench mouth...
...cause long before the War when he was a French army surgeon with Colonial troops in Africa. Although Dr. Hugo Karl Plaut of Hamburg two years earlier (in 1894) reported the same cause, credit for discovery goes to Dr. Vincent. The disease is called variously Vincent's angina, trench mouth, ulcerated stomatitis, necrotic gingivitis. Two germs, which may be variant forms of the same microorganism, are always associated with trench mouth. One is a wriggly spirillum, the other a cigar-shaped bacillus. They take hold anywhere in the throat. Commonest sites of infection are gums and tonsils. "Trench mouth...
...where dishes are not thoroughly sterilized are probably the next most common distributing agents. School children are infected by public drinking fountains. Drs. C. Rex Fuller and John Charles Cottrell of Salida, Colo, were obliged to amputate an Italian miner's left index finger after another man with trench mouth had bitten the finger. More males are attacked by trench mouth than females. But females suffer more, are harder to cure. An attack does not give immunity, apparently makes one more susceptible...