Word: cordes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prevent oscillations, can steer to a certain extent, can avoid trees, buildings and can be almost comfortable. He can, experience has shown again and again, drop 600 ft. without losing a particle of consciousness. He has indeed to rehearse his movements, but the pulling of the conveniently placed "rip cord"-a flexible cable which releases the pilot chute-is the easiest and most natural thing...
...life in the form of a thin flame shaking upon a thread. The electricity generated by the heart is carried to a silver quartz thread hanging in a magnetic field. As the heart strikes in and out, this faint fire shakes and shakes in the silver cord-patent to man, as it was of old to Atropos* Dr. Charles H. Mayo of Minnesota warned laconically: "Americans eat too much." Officers elected: Dr. Rudolph Matas, of New Orleans, President; Drs. Eugene H. Pool of Manhattan, and John S. McFachern of Calgary, Canada, Vice Presidents...
...pervaded the church, save for the glare of one spotlight playing upon the speaker's platform. There stood the Rev. O'Farrell, gesticulating, shouting to make himself heard above a strange series of interruptions. Beside him, chattering, chirping, squeaking, a lively monkey tugged and chafed at the cord that tethered it to a broomstick. Brought into the pulpit by the preacher to advertise his bold sermon and to illustrate his bold points, the simian had to be held in place by the sermonizer's 12-year-old daughter...
Lethargic encephalitis has not the slightest connection with African sleeping sickness (Trypanosomiasis). The name is more appropriate to the former disease than to the latter. Sleep symptoms are not invariably characteristic of the African sickness, but they occur whenever the parasite localizes in the fluid of the spinal cord or in the brain. Since they are conspicuous when present, the disease got its popular name from them. Sleep is a marked and invariable symptom of encephalitis, ranging from a light slumber to a profound coma...
Unfortunately for the rubber manipulators, 70% of rubber production is sold in the U. S. American rubber buyers considered the higher prices unreal, and bought only from hand to mouth, Moreover, the general adoption of cord tires tended to reduce rubber consumption because of their better wearing qualities compared with fabric tires...