Word: brine
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Trial by Heat. Since man cannot change his body quickly, he must carry with him a capsule of his earth-surface environment. This, in effect, is what the fish did; the cells in the bodies of land vertebrates, including man, are bathed in a fluid much like the thin brine of the paleozoic sea. But when man tries to carry his environment with him into the aeropause, he finds problems at each level...
...mistakes, and ambitions to be elected some day to something bigger than mayor of Toledo. By Washington standards, Di Salle is a local yokel-a man whose political experience had been bounded by Toledo's city limits, and whose hide has not been soaked long enough in the brine of the big time to stand up against the buffets of the big leagues. But brine is brine, in small town or large; Mike has been pretty well soaked...
Crimson coach Brine Munro has cause to be almost as concerned about the record of the varsity hockey team as his own soccer and hockey squads. A year ago this month the Crimson hockey team defeated Williams, 10 to 0. When Munro's lacrosse men played Williams in May, Ephman fans seeking revenge for their hockey team, screamed Get ten points," and Munro's team was besten...
...Less Brine. Like Dr. Henry A. Schroeder (then at the Rockefeller Institute), with whom he corresponded, Dr. Schemm was soon sure that he was on the right track. The nub of his idea was that dropsy victims were not waterlogged, but brine-logged. Edema fluid, said he, is no more fit for the body to use than sea water. Excess sodium in the body, usually in the form of its chloride (common salt), takes large amounts of water to keep it in solution. Often its demands are so great that a dropsy victim is simultaneously suffering from a shortage...