Word: bases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of introducing drugs into the fluid of the spinal canal, and affecting the entire circulatory and nervous systems, the anesthetists filled the empty epidural space at the base of the spine (between the inner wall of the spinal column and the sheath of the spinal cord) with 30-60 cubic centimeters of distilled water solutions of pantocain. metycaine, intracaine or other similar local anesthetics...
Another factor, be feels, "is the extent to which it has been possible to set up a real industrial base in Szochuan, sufficient to supply some sort of army in the field. This is naturally linked with other unanswered items such as the condition of the land supply routes from Western China to Russia and to Burma...
From the naval reserve base at Floyd Bennett Field on Long Island one morning last week, a small motor truck containing a radio transmitter set off for an unannounced point an hour's drive away. Hour or so later an American Airlines transport ship took off from the same field. Mounted horizontally just behind the throttles between the pilot and co-pilot was a circular dial face marked off in degrees like a compass. Over this swung an indicator hand. A little tuning picked out the truck's signal, and the hand froze like a pointer...
WASHINGTON--Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins today revealed that she has "something concrete" on which to base "great hopes" that the three-year civil war between the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization will end within six months. She declined to elaborate on the "something concrete...
...have ever used the cornea of a rabbit. The difference between the human cornea and the rabbit cornea is that the latter is larger and deeper. If this operation proves successful I will perform a second operation on Hoffman's right eye, using the rabbit cornea as a base, and over this graft a human cornea. Whether or not his sight will again be normal, or near normal, is problematical...