Word: drain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been several cases of balloons being struck by lightning and a few cases of minor damage to heavier-than-air craft. But, says that onetime naval commander, "the probability of serious effect of lightning on modern metal airplanes is extremely remote because of sharp points permitting the charge to drain off." According to Secretary Lester Durand Gardner of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, which held its third annual meeting last week in Manhattan, the destructive effect of lightning on an all-metal plane in flight is "unthinkable...
...these struggles. After more than one hour of emotionally fighting the sea from a plush chair, your reviewer was left somewhat spent and breathless. Yet he enjoyed his fight with the shark, his fearful clinging to the small bear which spun around like a matchstick in a drain, and especially the sensation of rolling in on the tops of the foaming breakers...
...present it costs just as much by the hour to tutor the unresponsive student as the responsive, and the drain on the tutor's energy is greater in the one case than in the other. Since these are times when every item of expense must justify itself, common sense would suggest that tutoring be reserved in large measure for those students who can realy profit by it. The tutorial system would be more efficient and would become all the more strongly established if its work were concentrated in the field of its major usefulness, and the resultant economies in operating...
Working furiously against the approaching winter's cold, the Maintenance Department has almost completed the installation of a steam-heat system for the gutter of Wigglesworth Hall. A long copper tube, running the length of the drain, will abolish once and for all the danger of falling icicles...
...about operation is that peritoneum not opened or in other words the abdominal cavity was not laid open. There practically no loss blood except what was expected on making superficial incision and consequently no risk for any post-operative hemorrhage. Incision was closed completely leaving small rubber tubing as drain. The tube was inserted by stab near the incision leading to neighborhood of opening made in ureter. Technical name for this trouble is calculus or stone in ureter or ureterolithiasis. Operation for removal stone on left ureter is ureterolithotomy. ?Januario R. Estrada...