Word: apparatus
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...years has been extraordinary. Indeed, dentistry as a profession requiring a wide range of varied knowledge and a high degree of skill of eye and hand may almost be said to have been created within that period. The work to be done by the dentist, and his materials and apparatus for doing that work are, for the most part, applications of three sciences: chemistry, physics, and biology, which have each made rapid progress since the middle of the nineteenth century. To the progress of applied chemistry, dentistry owes a large number of valuable new materials. Teeth used to be filled...
...called a smile usually uncovers the teeth. Next comes the process of filling or stopping the second teeth, which arrests that mysterious and perverse disintegration or decay of the bony part of the teeth which is called caries. I have already mentioned the great improvement in the materials and apparatus for filling which chemistry and physics have combined to provide. The extraction of teeth is a confession of professional failure. The dentist has not succeeded in keeping them. In many cases, of course, he has had no chance to do so. Anaesthetics and good instruments have robbed tooth-pulling...
...college winning will receive a banner, and medals will be awarded to the men winning the first three places or each piece of apparatus. A cup will also be given to the man winning the greatest number of points for his team...
...return to Hanover without playing because of the vagaries of this eccentric climate. For in spite of the growing importance of hockey, there is no way of ensuring good ice for the team. The plans for an indoor rink in Boston have apparently fallen through, and no refrigerating apparatus in the Stadium is possible as long as the hockey management is supposed to depend on its own subscriptions and gate-receipts to meet its large expenses...
...order to protect the household effects and property of the thousands of homeless people, the Chelsea militia was called out shortly after noon. Early in the course of the fire, help was sent for and men and apparatus came from Lynn, Cambridge, Everett, Revere, Winthrop, and other cities as far distant as Waltham...