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Word: virgil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gonococci most frequently infect Fallopian tubes and ovaries; streptococci and staphylococci, the uterus. To cure such infections in women, doctors used to be obliged to resort to surgery. Dr. Virgil Sheetz Counsellor of the Mayo Clinic, recently told his colleagues that he cured 73% of such inflammatory cases with the Elliott treatment applied an hour a day for two to three weeks. Dr. Simpson in his last week's account reported 90% cures without surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hot Box; Hot Bag | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...pillars outlive their usefulness and have to be replaced. Mr. Willard, now 73, does not call as often as he once did at the White House. President Roosevelt does his railroad talking now with men like Carl Gray of Union Pacific and Federal Transportation Coordinator Eastman. Lawyer-Lobbyist Robert Virgil Fletcher of the Association of Railway Executives has so far failed to draw any aces from the New Deal for his employers. Therefore the carriers of the U. S. have long felt the need for a fulltime Washington spokesman, a man of power, prestige and personality who would be authorized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Anna's Man | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...safeties, but three of these were bunched in the first inning for the three St. Louis runs. Rothrock got on base on Vaughans' low throw. Frisch doubled, Rothrock taking third. Rothrock scored on Medwick's single, Frisch going to third. Collins doubled, scoring Frisch, and putting Medwick on third. Virgil Davis long fly to center scored Medwick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News Salients | 9/26/1934 | See Source »

...created a philosophy, a religion, and an empire. This fact makes Italy impervious to criticism from abroad. We can regard with supreme disparagement those doctrines which come from elsewhere, from a people which did not even know how to write when we had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Caesar, Virgil, Augustus | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

...entrenched interests now attacking the schools." Hopefully they decided to ask the next Congress for half a billion dollars, with no strings of Federal control attached. In this resolution they were going to call attention to $2,000,000,000 Federal appropriations for Army & Navy, but War Veteran Virgil Sturgill of Ashland, Ky. objected and the comparison was struck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unhappy Teachers | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

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