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Shortly after 8 o'clock on the evening of Dog Day-plus-15, Dr. Silvis and I crawled through the blacked-out entrance into one of these cistern operating rooms. Beneath the big non-shadow electric lamps lay a Marine captain who had been a Jap machine gunner's target about three hours earlier. Dr. John A. Harper held up the wounded man's slashed, liver-colored spleen: "We also took out a piece of kidney," he said, "and he has a bullet through his diaphragm and lung. He asked for a priest right away." Silvis pulled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: On Iwo Jima | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

Inferno. In Kansas City, Mo., Dr. S. S. Hill heard strange noises under the front porch of his new house, called firemen to investigate. From a 20-ft. dry cistern were lifted (all alive) a chow, a Boston bulldog, a white Angora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 20, 1944 | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...entered the University of Missis sippi when he was only 14 (his prep school had closed because of typhoid spread when a pig fell down a cistern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stark Young, Painter | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

...circles round a cistern's wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Against One | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

Help to clean out rain water cistern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Master's Instructions Women For Hired Servant of 1814 Acquired by Widener Library From Heirs of John Pratt | 2/7/1935 | See Source »

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