Word: commonest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since it will introduce him to that portion of our language which, though it represents surprisingly little of our contemporary vocabulary, is still its course and center. Little do we realize that in our conversation we are constantly using and repeating this Teutonic element of our speech in our commonest and homeliest words and phrases...
...disease is called variously Vincent's angina, trench mouth, ulcerated stomatitis, necrotic gingivitis. Two germs, which may be variant forms of the same microorganism, are always associated with trench mouth. One is a wriggly spirillum, the other a cigar-shaped bacillus. They take hold anywhere in the throat. Commonest sites of infection are gums and tonsils. "Trench mouth" refers primarily to the gum condition. The ulcers of this disease and the membranes which cover them are deceptive. They may resemble diphtheria, septic sore throat, syphilis. Bacteriological examination quickly differentiates the four diseases...
Contagion. Vincent's angina is highly contagious. Kissing seems to be the commonest mode of spread. Restaurants where dishes are not thoroughly sterilized are probably the next most common distributing agents. School children are infected by public drinking fountains. Drs. C. Rex Fuller and John Charles Cottrell of Salida, Colo, were obliged to amputate an Italian miner's left index finger after another man with trench mouth had bitten the finger. More males are attacked by trench mouth than females. But females suffer more, are harder to cure. An attack does not give immunity, apparently makes one more...
...edifice a monument of international understanding. It would be a recognition that there are two sides to international questions, that war judgments are distorted by passion. Many professors here look back with shame to the time when the war fever lay so heavily upon them that they denied the commonest civilities to their former German friends on the campus. A monument to remind us of the changed light in which we saw the German people a decade after the war might help to prevent a repetition of such bitterness. Whenever the war fever threatens again, the name of Hans Wagner...