Word: shallowing
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...believe that Dr. Carrel is willing to befuddle and mislead the public and injure science and medicine for the shallow fame of personal publicity...
...venture turned out better than that of his fellow Standard Oilman, Henry Morrison Flagler, who insisted on building his Class I railroad over 114 miles of deep water to reach shallow water at Key West. Flagler's Florida East Coast is in the hands of the courts, and since the last hurricane (TIME, Sept. 16) it has been seriously suggested that its over-water section beyond the Florida mainland would make a better motor road than a railroad.* But the Rogers' Virginian was so solvent last week that a banking group headed by Brown Harriman & Co. easily marketed...
...Roosevelt and Secretary Hull to increase the trade of the United States and to drag the country out from behind the fences she has raised, promise to be to the permanent credit of the administration. Mr. Hoover's quip about the "more abundant life" is an indication of the shallow thought behind his attack. The man who coined the phrase, "Prosperity is just around the corner," should look before he leaps on another man's catchword...
Unless the anesthetist and surgeon take precautions, four out of five patients who undergo abdominal operations suffer partial collapse, wrote Dr. Henderson. Their respiration is shallow, their pulse rapid. In most cases this can be prevented if the surgeon "traumatizes as little as possible" and if the patient whiffs at carbon dioxide off & on for three or four hours after the operation. The carbon dioxide stimulates the lungs to breathe deeply, thus raises the body's general tone...
...some 95 feet it careened along, the right wheels at times three feet lower than the left. Then it struck a young pear tree, swerved at right angles. The Queen and the chauffeur were thrown clear. The car rolled down the bank, caromed off another tree and into the shallow water of the lake...