Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week an old man, fighting for breath, was wheeled into Chicago's Mercy Hospital. Five grave doctors hovered over his bed, took samples of his sputum to type the pneumococci that had attacked him, samples of his blood to type him for transfusions. They covered him with an oxygen tent, inoculated him with pneumonia serum, fed him the famed pneumonia specific, sulfapyridine. Mercy Hospital's Patient No. 1939-2468 was a very special case: he was the junior partner of America's most famous medical team-Dr. Charles Horace Mayo. As it does with the greatest...
...from the foggy fervors of the traditional German romantics. Pet bugbear of Nazi writers is "Jewish realism and intellectualism." Their pet ideal is an Aryan hero who does not yet exist. On paper he is: 1) an individual only in the sense that he is one of a blood community; 2) close to the soil, because his blood community has lived close to it for generations; 3) perfectly poised between these poles of blood and soil, so that his actions are always determined by them, but appear to be instinctive and unreasoned, like the actions of a healthy animal. When...
...Blood on the leaves and blood at the root...
Passing by in his car while the gang was tossing stones at the persons on the roof, the student stopped and opened fire on the rowdies with his air rifle. He was immediately mobbed and when the blood and crowds had cleared he was taken off to Stillman...
From the tortuous, terraced streets of Chungking, frightened Chinese saw doom in the blood-red discs on the under side of raiders' wings before ever a Japanese bomb had been dropped. The people of Madrid and Barcelona learned to duck whenever they saw the red-&-yellow wing insignia of Nationalist ships overhead. Fighting tribesmen in Palestine know they must take to cover whenever attack planes sweep down on them with the blue-white-&-red wing targets of Great Britain...