Word: chests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operating table, Able's heart began to fibrillate. For 2¼ hours Dr. Davis and others worked over the sinking monkey. Dr. Davis tried to revive her by blowing his own breath into her lungs. Other doctors cut into her chest, gave her heart electric shocks and massaged it by hand. But Able was dead. Next morning her carcass was flown in a small suitcase to Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, where an autopsy was performed by Colonel Joe M. Blumberg, who had orders not to mar unnecessarily her historic skin...
...Pale and shaky, he first tried to carry it off bravely: "Just like I told you when I came in, I feel fine." Though he soon gave way to tears, he still managed to keep his old red head in describing his bout with the malignant growth in his chest. "That damnable" tumor had even adhered to the aorta, great artery from the heart. Sobbing, Godfrey said: "Like all aviators. I'm not afraid of what I know about. Every time a pilot takes off, he takes what we call a calculated risk. He knows it could...
...Chris-Craftsmen feel that the fine old seagoing word "head" smacks too much of hair on the chest and tattooed muscles; the company's admen are looking for a word that nicely defines the head's function at the same time that it denotes a commodious enclosure...
...years, a critical problem which needs such discussion, and which would benefit substantially from thorough consideration by non-Administrators. Perhaps the revision of the Freshman year is such a question; certainly expansion is sufficiently immediate and pressing so that the Administration should stop playing its cards close to its chest, throwing the matter open to and actively encouraging general faculty discussion...
...great community hospital of 800 beds," said Dr. Joules, "but during February and March we ceased to be a general hospital. We had to suspend all admissions except emergency cases of chest and heart disease.* In those two months we admitted 616 such cases, and 196 died. The hospital really was an annex of the mortuary. If there had been a few days of smog, there would have been a holocaust in London...