Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tunnels, incidentally, are reserved for the use of engineers and offer heat-resisting officials and are not open to the public for the purpose of attending classes unseen...
Mexican Pope? There would appear to be left to the Mexican Episcopate only the weapon of violence against the Calles Government-a weapon which the Episcopate has resolutely and repeatedly declared that it will not attempt to use...
...Quervain of Switzerland retold the well-known prophylactic use of iodine in common salt against goitre. It is less well-known that iodine as a preventive is effective only before adolescence. After puberty iodine may stimulate a latent goitre...
...life that word has been applied to William Hanford Edwards. He weighs 300 pounds. He can get into a lower berth but not behind the wheel of an automobile. He always sits on the aisle at the theatre. He can use ready-made handerchiefs. He once saved the life of onetime (1910-13) Mayor William G. Gaynor of New York. He is said to have been the fastest big man that ever played football at Princeton...
Quacks. "Recently the wide use of physical therapeutic methods by a group of more or less illiterate healers has unfortunately brought the problem into prominence again. The devotees of these cults frequently massage tumors in order to drive the lump away. In this they are often too successful. Patients now come into our hospitals with extraordinary distribution of tumor cells following such massage and manipulation. The victims are practically all of them beyond help, owing to the extensive distribution about the body of the embolic particles."-Francis Carter Wood of Manhattan...