Word: bled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first act of the altruistic-but-wise men and King Carol last week was to decree that hereafter 10% shall be the maximum interest payable by any rural debtor in Rumania. Heretofore village loan sharks have bled many a hard-pressed farmer to economic death by loans at 60% plus...
When Lillian Fisher, 15, of Joliet, Ill , developed infantile paralysis last week the Fisher physician telephoned long distance to Chicago's Durand Hospital for serum, heard Dr. George Howitt Weaver tell him to use parrot's blood instead. Immediately a parrot was bled. Five cubic centimetres were injected into Lillian Fisher. She improved. When Dr. Weaver heard about the injection he exclaimed: "The doctor just misunderstood me. I said parent's blood, not parrot's blood...
...Memorial Hall. In both new and old, he sees halfbaked meats and widow's weeds coldly furnishing the Examination table. It is not remarkable that he looks forward with a whitening eye to the dreary 1,252,800 seconds that remain before the first lecture of 1931. Memories are bled by time, even that one bloodstained memory of the time be filled three exultant Bluebooks with thin wavy lines...
...germs. Laboratory men withdrew blood from Doc Dobbin's neck. They stored it in sterile glass cylinders, allowed the valuable antibody serum to separate from the rest of the blood. After three days the serum was siphoned of, stored in a refrigerator ready for use. Antitoxin horses are bled once a month, are permitted to rest, feed well between times. No matter how old they become, they are useful for antitoxin so long as they are healthy...
...head. Low tones become high squeaks, high pitches turn into low grunts. Tones are changed in frequency, resulting in a language which no eaves- dropper could understand. At the receiving end of the radio telephone a translating apparatus changes the inverted tones back to normal. The "scram-bled speech" invention is already used by five transatlantic radio telephone channels. Bell Telephone Laboratories' staff of researchers-3,000 scientists and engineers-is now working on refinements, hopes soon to finish...