Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side. Inside the tube, one above the other, are set more than 40 lenses. No matter which way the tube is bent within the patient, the lenses diffract the image at the bottom of the tube so that the physician has a clear view of the stomach wall as he twists the gastroscope. Insertion of the instrument is easy: the physician anesthetizes the patient's throat, grasps the gastroscope in both hands like a billiard cue, pokes the rubber end gently but firmly down the patient's throat and esophagus into his stomach. Examination lasts from three...
...Italian immigrant, A. P. symbolizes to millions of depositors the small man who has lifted himself up without toadying to "the interests." Conversely, most of the interests hate the Giannini guts. The nation's biggest branch banker, he is notably scornful of Wall Street, has enjoyed nothing more than annoying its orthodox banking fraternity by backing New Deal financial policies. Wall Street was therefore enormously delighted last week because the New Deal had bit the only big banking hand that ever...
...small-loan business in Baltimore and a sister with some money. Soon Wallace Groves had small-loan companies scattered about the District of Columbia, nearby Virginia and Maryland. In 1931, having merged his companies with a Chicago concern, he sold out, decided to try his hand in Wall Street...
Bulwark of the Norfolk side was a certain lifer named John Wall, who will probably prove a stumbling block in the success of many Harvard debators of future generations...
SYDNEY MINES, Nova Scotia--With more than 250 aboard, a mine train ran wild today down a mile of track deep into the Princess Colliery diggings to splinter finally against a mine wall at 60 miles an hour, killing 20 of its occupants and injuring 45 more...