Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...written you sooner concerning an extraordinary report in your July 1 issue reading that blood had been transfused from a dead person into a live one. Unless there happens to be a recent procedure unbeknown to the medical world at large, it seems rather incredible how this could be done since the motivating power, the heart, has ceased to propel the blood through the circulation Of course, it may be stated that the heart keeps on beating for a variable but comparatively short time after the beats can no longer be elicited with the ordinary clinical means, but these beats...
...pleasure to come back to W ashington ... but it is a great relief not to have to assume the duties of an office. . . . I suppose you are interested in what I have been doing while I have been away. . . . I have done a little writing that'you can read if you want to?I have read some of your writing [laughter]. And of course I have done a little fishing. I think I have caught 200 speckled trout this spring...
Halterophera Capitata. The Board has done some preliminary relief work on the citrus fruit situation in Florida where the ravages of the Mediterranean fruit fly (Halterophera capitata) had created an acute local problem (TIME, May 6 et seq.). Two competing fruit cooperatives appealed for the Board's help. The Board sent them away with a promise of help after they had merged their efforts, eliminated duplication, become representative of all Florida fruit growers in trouble...
...behind a demand that M. Tardieu should not only be retained but advanced to Finance Minister. 4) The whole Chamber was in an ugly mood because, just prior to M. Poincaré's resignation, the government with high-handed cloture put through a motion adjourning Parliament until autumn. This was done to throttle possibly mischievous polemics on the newly ratified debt settlement. But before M. Briand could form a cabinet he was obliged by custom to reconvoke the Chamber in special session, so that Parliament might endorse or reject his new government. Naturally a chamber just booted into adjournment
That Pilots Jackson and O'Brine flew continuously much longer than anything that breathes ? bird or insect ? had ever done before...