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The Dynomizer was big business ; by 1918, courses in spondylotherapy and ERA cost $ 200 ( about the same purchasing power as $ 2, 800 in 2008 ); equipment was leased at about $ 200 with a monthly $ 5 charge thereafter.
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The Dynomizer looked something like a radio, and Abrams claimed it could diagnose any known disease from a single drop of blood or alternatively the subject's handwriting.
Dynomizer operators tended to give alarming diagnoses, involving combinations of such maladies as cancer, diabetes and syphilis.
was and big
He was a big man, wearing a neat flannel shirt against the cold foothill air.
A big car was approaching, its chrome teeth grinning.
There was a mound of bleached human bones and skulls at the base of the big wooden derrick.
He was very tanned -- big hands might have torn him from a Coca-Cola poster.
He was on the thin side, with big hands, and the kind of wrists that give away the power in forearm and bicep.
He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.
Within seconds the big barn was blasted into smoking splinters, with every outlaw either dead or injured inside.
This was the big man with the proprietory air and the beetling, shaggy eyebrows.
He was big, and filthy, and his toes stuck out of the flapping tops of his shoes.
He was big.
`` No, I don't think so '', said the big man, and it was the final clincher for Ernie.
She was certain now that it would be no harder to bear her child here in such pleasant surroundings than at home in the big white house in Haverhill.
When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.
He was a big man, and he wanted nothing little, squeezed ; ;
He told me that he had a big newt and a little newt and that he was transplanting a big eye of the big newt onto the little newt and a little eye of the little newt onto the big newt.
He was then noting that the big eye on the little newt hung back until the little eye had grown up to it, while the little eye on the big newt grew rapidly until it was as big as the other.
He was thinking his way into a new novel, a big one, one that people had been waiting for.
was and business
The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.
But there was no definite agreement about business arrangements ''.
`` Mr. Miller was in the shop '', the Herald Tribune story related, `` but was reluctant to have anybody's picture taken inside, because his business was too ' confidential ' for pictures.
Her mother was a good manager and established a millinery business in Milwaukee.
Carl, who was stationed in Appleton, Wisconsin, organizing for the Social Democrats, was in Berger's office and made it his business to escort Paula to the streetcar.
He had worked in the newspaper business since he was nineteen years old, always for the Hearst service.
Boniface was later to explain to the English that Robert of Burgundy and Guy De St.-Pol were easy enough to do business with ; ;
Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.
It was the use of the supernatural that kept them in business.
The Chancellor had as much business there as Ulbricht had in East Berlin -- and was certainly less provocative than the juvenile sound-truck taunts of Gerhard Eisler.
These arrangements would have been impossible if the business community was truly interested in the welfare of its employes.
I never could find out what his business was.
He was tired, he had his business worries, and the sight of his wife arranging pork chops in the broiler only seemed like an extension of a boring day.
There was no reference to the incident on the stairs, his powers being absorbed by this more immediate business.
What made these new location figures particularly impressive was the fact that although 1960 was a year of mild business recession throughout the nation, Rhode Island scored marked progress in new industry, new plants, and new jobs.
Between that year and the buying out of Mr. Darling's interest in 1892, a large portion of the company's precision tool business was carried out under the name of Darling, Brown & Sharpe, and to this day many old precision tools are in use still bearing that famous trademark.
In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.
Like many others, he had to work hard, long hours in a struggling family business which, though it was allied to art of a kind -- the design and production of engraved seals -- bore no relation to the painting of pictures.
business organization -- the corporation -- was analyzed in contractual terms ; ;
The questionnaire was designed to elicit three types of information: ( 1 ) the facts regarding certain characteristics of the respondents, including their experience with, and interest in, securing defense business ; ;
It was nearly sundown before they finished the business with Beall and began riding down the stream.
was and ;
The pony herd was the one flaw in our defense ; ;
His face was split by a vermilion streak, his eyes were pools of white ; ;
And there was a house ; ;
The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;
Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;
It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;
He was a man in his late forties, with graying hair, of medium height ; ;
He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;
In his mood, it was the best way to handle him ; ;
This, he was sure, was the way they would act ; ;
His aim was hurried ; ;
At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
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