Word: transplanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Naturally, no attractive young woman was going to tie herself for life to an earless young man. He fell to brooding. His devoted mother began to worry about him. She went to Dr. Allan Ragnell, distinguished Stockholm plastic surgeon, and asked him if he could remove her own ears, transplant them to the head...
...transplant trees grown to their fullest stature...
Later, as Clara grows stronger and older, plastic surgeons may take bits from this apron of skin, transplant them to other parts of her scarred body as islands from which new skin may grow and spread. Then, years hence, if all goes well, Clara Howard, with arms and head freed, will have a skin that is scarred and puckered but whole. John too will be permanently scarred but this thought did not deter him from volunteering. His mother, who takes roomers, promised to reward him with $20 and a new coat. But last week she took sick...
...there while fighting off the churchmen who flocked to his bedside hoping to save the blackest soul in U. S. history. Though he asked to be buried in a Quaker cemetery, not even the Quakers would receive him. Repentant Journalist Cobbett dug up Paine's bones, intending to transplant them to Liverpool, then-according to Author Pearson-absentmindedly mislaid them somewhere...
...more fully than did Quincy the spirit of the founders and to understand more completely the significance of their bold plan. And with the increase in our knowledge comes a more than proportional increase in our admiration. As you have heard, the Puritans' ambition was none other than to transplant to an untamed forest the ancient university tradition. They would be satisfied with nothing short of duplicating here in New England at least one college of Cambridge University. Carried forward by the 'strong tide of Puritanism, the enterprise was at first blessed with almost miraculous success. The goal might well...