Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...douloureux. It is a brain operation performed with the patient in a sitting position, under local anesthetic. Dr. Klemme makes a hole about the size of a quarter in the skull under the temple, lifts up the brain, exposes the root of the fifth cranial nerve, which serves the upper and lower jaws and the eyes. He delicately separates the fibres, severs only the sensory jaw fibres. In this way he has successfully relieved some 200 tic sufferers. In no case has the pain recurred...
...Children sleep too much-chiefly because their parents want them out of the way. "The patience, niceness and indeed submissiveness of upper-class mothers to the nurses they employ are really a tacit understanding that they will forgive anything, bear anything, so long as the disturbing child is kept away from his parents and from their possessions." Instead of sleeping in prison-like cribs, children should have free, low beds near the floor...
...tang, is even more vigorous. To hell with formality. He talks as men do in the locker room, and spices his profanity with the Bible, Shakespeare and law. He spills out figures, dates, technical facts, historical parallels. When the argument grows hot his eyes get hawklike and his stubborn upper lip stiffens. If an opponent wilts under his fire, Willkie is disgusted. He doesn't want the argument...
...years ago that he first started making large-scale purchases. Every summer he took time off to visit European spas and ferret the art centres. Always he came back with some important token, which he personally hung on the already crowded walls of his rambling duplex penthouse on upper Fifth Avenue. Unmarried, he called his pictures his "children...
...public. For six years the Exchange has wondered why its wooing has not produced a spark of reciprocal affection. Last week the Exchange hired Elmo Roper, chief researcher of FORTUNE'S famed polls of public opinion, for a special job: to find out what the middle and upper income people of the U. S. now think of the Exchange. Object: to improve its style of wooing...