Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nicoll confidently grasped his knife, made an incision along the side to the breastbone, along the breastbone for eight inches, then straight through the third, fourth, fifth and sixth ribs. Pushing back the ribs he saw the chest cavity flooded with blood, drained it out with a suction machine like a little hand vacuum cleaner. Then he picked up Manning's heart and held it faintly fluttering in his hand. The pericardium (membrane enveloping the heart) was bruised and a large pool of blood was trapped in the heart, impeding its motion. Dr. Nicoll slit through the pericardium...
...whom he already owes a small fortune are hideously complicated by the arrival of an irascible hotel supervisor (Donald McBride), then of the bewildered young author whose play he hopes to produce. Harpo and Chico are Miller's equally impecunious assistants. The tumultuous efforts of the Marxes along two fronts-1) forestalling the supervisor's efforts to throw them out, and 2) bullying a naive financial agent into signing a check that will solve all their difficulties -lead to scenes of indescribable confusion. The double room which Groucho stubbornly regards as his castle becomes a shambles on which...
...Wilson invented the cloud chamber. This device makes visible the fantastically rapid paths, straight, curved, or broken, of electrons and other subatomic particles. The cloud chamber contains water vapor or other fluid vapor which, suddenly expanded by a piston, condenses along the particle paths in fog droplets that show up in photographs as white streaks...
Self-styled a "forum for interchanging world experience in all phases of management," last week's convention was held in Washington's capacious Chamber of Commerce building, drew a full complement of U. S. tycoons. But what they had to say along the standard themes of U. S. management problems lost the spotlight to the embarrassed remarks of the European representatives. Sample: Lord Leverhulme (soap) of England, retiring president: "The more freedom and smoothness there is in the give & take of goods and services between the countries of the world, the more encouragement there will...
...Freshmen get along. They learn of tutoring schools and mimeographed lecture notes. They get used to the animal heads and the menu at the Union. They acquire shoes and hats and slacks and friends like the rest. They find their places and the atmosphere gradually, unnoticeably, has meanwhile through some magic grown normal and livable. They get used to Harvard--their New room. And the Vagabond guesses that pretty soon he will get used to his New room, too. Till then he, too, will just grope hopefully for the light...