Word: arming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vadon, was assisting at an operation. An inadvertent movement of the patient drove deep into his hand the point of a syringe known to contain deadly bacilli. Immediate treatment would probably have saved him, but he chose to finish the operation without attending to himself. As a result his arm became infected and had to be amputated last week. "For his devotion to duty under exceptional circumstances" the French Government caused Dr. Vadon to be decorated with the cordon of the Legion of Honor, on the day after his arm was amputated...
...hipped runagade, no man could hold him; he writhed through seas of grasping moleskin-flints with a twiddle of his buttocks and a flirt of his shinbone. His knee-bolt pumped like an engine piston; his straight arm fell like a Big-Wood tree. Last week, after a summer on ice, he twice manifested himself before his heirophants. First he prepared to take the field against Nebraska, his ancient enemy; secondly he addressed a message to his personal public in the October issue of the American Boy. The message?a three page article on football?was signed with his name...
...highly revered but, in the course of nature, unable to transact heavy duties. This year, for the first time, the highest office in the church will be filled by election, and the newly elected Presiding Bishop will become, ex officio, President of the National Council, the executive arm of the church national. At present the Presiding Bishop is the Rt. Rev. Ethelbert Talbot of Pennsylvania, and the President of the National Council is the Rt. Rev. Thomas F. Gailor, Bishop of Tennessee, one of the best known ecclesiastics in the U. S. Neither of these men is likely...
...Agriculture smiling from beneath its domed forehead; and there were the stone-chiseled features of the Secretary of State. He too smiled as he waited there, his head thrust forward over his little dark-suited body, his gray fedora held in one hand and his cane hooked over his arm...
Here is where the puzzle comes in. Sometimes the patients live, sometimes not. Of Lee's beneficiaries 17 pulled through and 7 went to their rest. And in every single one of the latter cases, Frederick George Lee felt a severe pain in his arm at the precise moment of the patient's passing. He was depressed, distressed and overcome with illness, every time. Remarkable, because in no case did Lee behold the patient during the transfusion, in no case was he aware of the patient's condition until the last moment came, with its twinge...