Word: deadening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refuse to take the painter at his word and run a testing finger along the damp surface until the amount of paint collected on the digit impedes further progress. The result is probably worse than no sign at all, in which case bitter experience with new coats would soon deaden curiosity and remove all friction between the wall...
...morphine which Dr. Wassermann injected into helpless Marion Garey was less to deaden pain, which the man no longer felt, than to prevent him from collapsing from shock. After giving the morphine, the doctor applied a tourniquet, cut through the flesh of the broken leg, applying hemostats to the blood vessels he severed. He had no need to saw the bones; they were broken through. Twelve minutes after the morphine injection...
Once healthy, abstemious Shah Reza considered outlawing opium smoking, but factors other than reform weighed heavily. Important was the fact that an estimated half of the adult population smokes opium, that it is used as solace for the famine victim, to quiet crying babies and pleading children, to deaden the pain of a disease-ridden population largely unserved by doctors or hospitals, as well as for sheer pleasure. More important was that the opium trade, transported by camel caravan into Russia, then carried over the Tran-siberian Railroad to China by the obliging Soviets, accounted for more than half...
...Commander-in-Chief's commandeered headquarters, paper pasted over the broken panes of his windows, water leaking through the roof and pattering loudly into tin pans. It was impossible to talk in comfort until deft Japanese orderlies had placed towels in the bottoms of the tin pans to deaden the noise. Then long-eared General Matsui fell to reminiscing about what a help he was to Dr. Sun Yat-sen and in general how Japan has helped eminent Chinese-indeed Chinese Premier and Generalissimo Chiang received his military education as a cadet in Tokyo...
...office utility first reported last week was an obtundent (desensitizing) paste developed by Manhattan's Drs. Harold Aaron Osserman and Abraham Taub. Like Manhattan's Dr. Leroy L. Hartman's painkiller which attracted attention last year (TIME, Feb. 3, 1936), the new obtundent is supposed to deaden the fibrils of nerves which are supposed to run through the dentine of teeth. Critics of the Hartman and Osser-man-Taub anesthetics pointed out that, 1) it is doubtful that dentine contains nerve tissues, 2) the chemicals do not always work, 3) such news makes patients expect too much...