Word: used
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Usual tackle for marlin and tuna in Bahaman waters: 39-thread line, 14/0 real and 30-oz. tip. Some anglers even use 72-thread line, 16/0 reel...
Putting in a false front tooth is a major feat in dental engineering. Usually dentists get around the difficulty by fitting their patients with removable bridges, often uncomfortable. Sometimes they pare down neighboring teeth, use them as anchors for a permanent bridge...
...extracted tooth, then cement a false tooth to the protruding end of the peg. But he never dared to do it, for he knew metal pegs might induce mouth irritation. Two years ago Dr. Strock decided to try the new alloy, vitallium. Vitallium is the most satisfactory metal doctors use for patching fractures. Fortnight ago, in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Oral Surgery, Dr. Strock told how he used inexpensive vitallium for making successful peg teeth. Into the gaping socket of a willing patient, who was first given a local anesthetic, he inserted a vitallium screw, working it into...
Contrary to popular opinion, said Dr. Goldstein to his colleagues last week, the brain does not grasp simple, single objects first, but understands things only as parts of larger patterns. Many patients suffering from injuries of the cortex (most highly complex section of the brain) cannot use or understand any isolated words, symbols or objects. For example, certain patients who have brain injuries, but who appear normal in their behavior, when handed a knife, are unable to give it a name. But when handed a knife with a potato, they promptly cry: "That's a potato peeler...
...also called Ballyhoo, which profited from the magazine's popularity. Wracking his brains for a new magazine idea, he hit upon the reverse procedure. With Hellzapoppin still a sellout after eight months on Broadway, Norman Anthony offered Producers Olsen & Johnson half a cent a copy for permission to use the title for a magazine.* Having little ready cash, he got a printer and a paperseller to take a chance on three issues, bought $300 worth of art, then sat down in his room in the Parkside Hotel and wrote 32 pages of gags. This week the first issue...