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...street was probably a playwright. His day has passed. The public will no more of him. The play not only is no longer the thing. It is no longer anything at all. In this best of all possible dr?.matic seasons the actor has taken the bit in his teeth and bolted, with the play rattling and banging along behind...
...unfailingly represented with holes for their identification, just as a tail differentiates man and monkey in the same school of Art. The disclosure of this difficulty will, of course, play havoc with the popular idea that the holes depend upon gangs of Swiss maidens who construct them with their teeth as well as the rival theory that the marksman ship of the Swiss fleet is responsible for the regularity of the pattern...
...child is given intelligence tests (group and individual); has his school accomplishment measured by means of standardized tests in reading and arithmetic; and has his teacher's judgments and observations of the above recorded. His height, weight, and bodily proportions are also measured; his physical condition is observed; his teeth are examined to see how the process of dentition is coming along; and the ossification of the carpal bones is shown by X-ray photographs...
This newspaper science, however, served up to the credulous for popular consumption, must not be swallowed whole. The French discoverer of "self-anaesthesia" claims only that it will be useful for minor operations, such as extracting teeth, when the cause of pain is only momentary, and when the patient's heart is sound. Even at that, it may be widely useful; "Painless Dentistry", the promise of zealous advertisers, can become an everyday reality; and the ordeal of removing splinters and cinders will be only a matter of a few deep breaths...
...stand and gnash my teeth...