Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three years Mrs. Bramy was able to look after her family. Then, to relieve her hardening heart, Surgeons Brunn & Brown were obliged to remove a rigid 2-by-3 in. section from her calcifying pericardium. That type of operation was rare. Rarer was the patient's survival in comfort for another two years...
Institutional advertising, which tries to sell an idea rather than a specific product, is the oldest example of an attempt to build public confidence in business. On a broader scale is the type of campaign now being sponsored by the railroads, which are trying to sell a ride not on a specific train but on any train. For four years the Advertising Federation of America has been telling the story of U. S. Business by broadcast and printed word but advertising has been the hero. There are at least three campaigns now running which are trying to sell...
...script's the script--stretch it, pamper it, bolster it as you may. The show starts with the marriage of Baxter and Myrna Loy, he a conscientious, hard-working architect; and she apparently a conventionally affectionate young bride. As the show progressed Baxter remained true to his original type, and to this added occasional drunken sprees which involved him, rather innocently, though not deeply with a gay young thing named Kitty. Naturally this brought chastisement from his wife. But she failed to realize that incidents of this kind only occurred when she was away in Maine having a good time...
...enough for Harvard merely to protest that it knows no stamp and has produced no type. The myth must be blown skyhigh, like the rumor of the iron in raisons or the alleged intimacy between Camels and Mrs. Cabot's throat...
...every seven or eight adults will die of cancer. No one person can pay a doctor for a complete examination as to the possibilities of his having all the varieties of cancer that there are. But he can be examined for the more common kinds, and for the type someone else in his family has had. Thus we may get the patients for early diagnosis, and save some of them who would otherwise come when it was too late...