Word: dentist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...county detective, was sentenced to three life terms in prison (TIME, Nov. 19, 1934). Since his last trial, Boss Bruno has been confined in Pottsville's county jail, awaiting removal to Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. One morning last week he asked to be permitted to visit a dentist, was motored downtown by a guard named Guy Irving. Finding the dentist's curb occupied, amiable Guard Irving said he told the murderer to go into the office alone, drove on to park his car. When he returned, Boss Bruno was gone. Four hours passed before he reported...
...first day, Jerry Rodman's front wheel collapsed when he was pedaling at 25 miles an hour. On the second, the crowd watched a dentist line up his tools beside the track, extract a wisdom tooth from Heinz Vopel. On the third, sturdy-legged Franco Georgetti, trying to make a comeback before his retirement, withdrew from the event when he was 19 laps behind...
Daughter of a deceased Chicago dentist, the blonde-banged youngster began her singing lessons only two years ago, never heard an opera until this season. Said Betty Jaynes after reading her notices: ''Now I shall not go to school any more. I shall just sing and sing and sing." Preparing to join the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra. Elizabeth Vandenberg, pretty, blonde daughter of Michigan's Republican Senator, gave a piano recital before Manhattan's Beethoven Association...
...slit lies slightly more than an inch away from the midline of the skull and crosses a line running across the head from ear to ear. At each junction of the ear-to-ear line and the slits in the scalp, Drs. Freeman & Watts drill a hole with a dentist's bur. The bur holes permit passage of a leucotome, or lobotomy cannula, a hollow needle through which a loop of wire can be slipped...
...four hundred dollars will now go to the Grenfell Mission to pay the summer expenses of three Harvard men, one embryo dentist or doctor, and two undergraduates. The Grenfell Post in Labrador is famous all over the world. Its forces have been bolstered up every summer by amateur volunteers who are willing to pay for the privilege of service that runs from the hard physical labor of unloading provisions to curing Eskimo diseases. Although the new plan is frankly an experiment, and if it fails, the disposition of the fund will go back into the hands of the Cabinet; still...