Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ross, you ought to be ashamed. The Copley is just across the street from the Back Bay Station. When does a friend of the "New Yorker" get, off at South Station anyhow? All that indefinable air of well-being, good cigars and whiskey, that subtle compound of Brooks Bros., Yardley and Sulka disappear in a puff of smoke. The ruddy executive becomes a pathetic, puzzled little fellow in a battered fedora, clutching a suitcase in his arms and sweating profusely. He's probably run down at the heel, too. Hell, Harold, you might as well give him a dime...
Greeting. In Springfield, Mass., Carl Lagerstrom met an old friend, shook hands so vigorously that he got a compound fracture, developed an infection, died...
Lockheed Aircraft research workers have made a new sulfa drug, desoxyephe-dronium sulfathiazole (a combination of an ephedrine compound which shrinks swollen membranes, and bacteria-fighting sulfathiazole), have treated more than 1,000 Lockheed colds with it. The drug was used as a nose-&-throat spray and as a nasal pack on cotton. Result: "Rather prompt relief." The spray cannot be bought without a prescription...
...blocking off all entrances, hanging up big cloth screens at the end of the street and opening the wide iron gates, guards converted the two embassies and their grounds into one big compound. For the four days of the conference the Big Three lived and worked there, dining together each night, never more than 200 yd. away from each other...
...embellished with revetments and repair shops-in view of supply difficulties, a miraculous achievement. Personnel is well housed, clothed, fed. No longer does Chennault himself operate from mud-and-bamboo headquarters, but from a spic-&-span, map-covered, easy-chaired, well-carpeted office in the heart of a new compound...