Word: mineral
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Dental needs of the U.S. Army may force civilian toothache sufferers to stand in line if they want to see a dentist about their troubles. At least that's the opinion of Leroy M.S. Miner '04, Dean of the Harvard Dental School, in his annual report issued yesterday...
...Dean Miner predicted that the defense program will require some 4500 additional dentists each year for the next five years, adding that present facilities turn out only 1800 yearly...
Shortening of the period required for dental training might help alleviate the situation, Dean Miner stated. Such a step would be well-accepted, at any rate, by those who are anxious to be on the giving, and not the receiving end of a dentist's drill...
George Gibson introduced the new member to the 32 members of T. U. C.'s General Council with wisecracks. Example: "This is Tom O'Brien, an Irishman masquerading as a Welshman." When the Queen's ear caught the accent of Miner Will Lawther she chimed in: "What part of the north do you come from...
...Weary." On the last day of C. I. O.'s convention John Lewis nominated his successor: 54-year-old Philip Murray, who began his career at the age of ten working in a Scottish coal mine, still has a miner's shoulders and a Scotsman's burr. Sidney Hillman seconded Murray's nomination, for Murray's election was the brightest hope for harmony in C. I. 0. When Murray won, Lewis shook his hand far more cordially than he had shaken Hillman's, gave him an ivory gavel, "symbol" of C. I. 0. leadership...