Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-five dollars a pint is the market price for fresh, clean human blood, which is sold by physicians and surgeons and used to replenish the blood supply of patients who have lost a good deal of the fluid during operations or through sickness. A human being can safely spare a pint out of the eight quarts of blood in his body once in six months, according to the doctor in charge at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Some men have been known to supply as much as two quarts during the six month period, but the doctor did not recommend...
...then, even if a man's blood is clean, we cannot inject it into the veins of any patient. The blood of different people varies greatly in its chemical composition, and if the wrong kind of blood is put in a patient it is very likely to kill him immediately. So we have to examine the blood of both donor and patient very carefully to make sure that no such catastrophe could possibly occur...
Dartmouth's slate, which promises to be as clean as anyone's at the end of the season, was never threatened with a smudge from Brown. Messrs. Hall, Oberlander, Dooley, Leavitt and their assistants travelled 222 yards during an afternoon punctuated with many imperfect passes by Brown. Score: Dartmouth 10, Brown...
...clouds their objective. Spectators saw them disappear. Then they suddenly broke through, as the cloud disintegrated under the shower of electrified sand discharged through nozzles set in the under portion of the fuselage. The aviators described a circle above the cloud bank and their maneuver was duplicated by a clean-cut pathway through the mist. "A miracle!" cried some of the watchers...
...record was clean; his honesty never had been impugned, even when the impugning was easy; he could write his name so that it was almost undecipherable, and in other ways he seemed to be eminently qualified for the high office to which he aspired...