Word: alignment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week dentists who specialize in making twisted teeth align with normal teeth in a patient's mouth met at Manhattan. They constituted the First International Orthodontic Congress. Simultaneously, at Philadelphia, the National Society of Dental Prosthetists was in annual session. Its members are dentists who specialize in making plates, bridges and like artificial dentures. Orthodontists. Six hundred, including nearly all the 450 in the U.S., convened from 15 nations. They heard-that orthodontia lies at the basis of the science of dentistry (Dr. Augustus S. Downing of Albany, N. Y.); that universities are now recognizing orthodontia...
...Because, without U. S. cooperation, the Protocol was seriously crippled. (What Mr. Chamberlain doubtless meant was that- although a definite entente between the U. S. and Britain cannot be proved to exist- no Government in Britain or in the British Dominions would today care to align itself against the U. S. The same might be said in a converse case, for it remains a fact that the foreign policies of the two countries, discounting inevitable differences of opinion, are to a large extent identical. Concrete expression of this premise is difficult, but it is notable that at no point...
...announcement that the La Follette-Wheeler Club of Harvard has made its campaign headquarters in Apthorp House has caused much disturbance among its occupants. Those who align themselves with the older, and, they claim, more respectable, parties, contend that Apthorp house, the home of so many old Tory traditions, is not the place for the most progressive, and radical party to locate itself...
...known metropolis) stayed silent. Accordingly Mabel Normand opened in The Extra Girl. It turned out to be a feminine edition of Merton and guaranteed harmless. The scandal-starved hundreds can gaze, gape and grin at Miss Normand to their hearts' content and bring their children. For those who align themselves with this department in Considering screen Mabel an exceptionally comic personality, the picture will appeal...
...elected to Congress and served for about five years. In the Republican split of 1912 he stood by Taft, but not in the rock-ribbed Republican group. His stand was such that in 1916 Roosevelt called upon him "'to assume a position of leadership " and to help align the Republican and Progressive forces. That year he was elected Governor and made a creditable record in office, reorganizing the executive department of the state from 128 bureaus into nine departments, reducing the tax rate...