Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Suitor. In Shanghai, Miss Chang Yun-shiu had the law on Ma Shu-li after he 1) protested his love for her in a letter written in blood; 2) threatened to kill her; 3) tried for the third time to climb in her bedroom window...
...experimenting with monkeys in specially constructed pressure chambers, Dr. Gelfan, an assistant professor of physiology, has learned that at 52,000 feet the barometric pressure of the air is so low that it is about equal to the pressure inside the tiny blood vessels of the lungs. Under such conditions, there is not enough pressure to force the oxygen through the walls of the blood vessels and into the bloodstream. Explained Dr. Gelfan: "At the moment of decompression . . . the pressure of oxygen in the blood would be greater than in the lungs, and under such circumstances oxygen is actually lost...
...They tested Judge Kennon when he left the Army," Dodd bayed at country crossroads. "They tested his feet and said they were no good for running. They tested his blood and said it was 65% champagne and 35% talcum powder. They tested his ears and the doctor said: 'Judge, your ears are perfect. You can hear an election coming two years...
...village priest coming to perform the last rites of the church for Maria. Near midnight a cry went up: "She's sweating! She's sweating!" A deep shiver ran through the crowd. Then, above the dim hubbub of questions, a shrill exalted voice: "She's sweating blood!" "It's a miracle," screamed an old woman, "we'll have our saint." Rumors continued to flash through the dark like scratched matches: Maria was dying, she felt neither burns nor pinpricks, she was dead but her heart continued miraculously to beat. Passionately one girl in the crowd...
...with anemia-treating properties, and pernicious anemia patients are freed from the ups & downs of the meat market. Liver extract, obtained from cow livers, varies in quality. The new product will eventually be mass-produced and comparatively cheap. The animal protein factor has proved that it clears up the blood damage in pernicious anemia. Still to be answered: does it repair the nerve damage that is frequently part of the disease...