Word: doctored
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Bethany, Mo., Raymond King learned with disappointment that it was a girl, when he had wanted a boy. "I'll go back and get you one," said the doctor. An hour later King had his son-a twin...
...fetid air underground. Few shelters had adequate heat, light or latrines; most were dank and unventilated at best. Children slept with their parents under blankets left underground for weeks on end. Milk for babies could not be heated if it was brought in. Nightly inspection trips were made by doctors and Red Cross nurses, but medical attention was still makeshift. One shelter doctor, who worked at a children's hospital by day, was responsible for 5,000 men, women and children at night...
...doctor, Jesús Pueyo claims to have cured almost 200 patients with his vaccine, given in courses of 20 injections under the guidance of Dr. Francisco Romero. He will not reveal the formula of his vaccine, says it is made by neutralizing tubercle bacilli from human sputum with a special chemical. The vaccine, he holds, stimulates production of tuberculosis antibodies. Last fall the newspaper La Critica took up Pueyo's cause. The National Department of Hygiene promised to experiment if he revealed his formula. He refused. A newspaper row started. Then patients took matters into their own hands...
...York box salesman, a Chicago doctor, a United Air Lines pilot, a Texas polo player, 46 other assorted U. S. citizens gathered in Los Angeles last week to ply their common sport. They were all "spindizzies." Three years ago spindizzy was unknown to the U. S. vernacular. Then Los Angeles' Dooling brothers (Tom, Russ and Hank), who were model-airplane buffs, began to experiment with model autos. They built a miniature automobile, not much larger than a milk bottle, to fit over one of their tiny, ¼-h.p. internal-combustion airplane engines, tied one end of a piece...
...English language;* but it is about a mother-in-law. William Shakespeare himself gets uncommonly fancy and feeble; the one grand piece of eloquence Dr. Phelps allows him to deliver is from Hamlet, is spoken in disgust, and is, at that, the mildest dose of vitriol the good doctor could lift out of Hamlet's tongue-lashing. And Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a sometime master of verbal magic, begins a mother-sonnet...