Word: drippings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broadcast will carry special interest for Harvard men for it was learned that Dorothy is an old Pine Manor girl whose opinion of Harvard men is slightly limited. "My only date with a Harvard man was a blind one," she confessed, "and he was a drip...
...Last year doctors were agog over a new five-day treatment for early syphilis which used continuous, slow-drip injections of an arsenic compound. Experience has shown, said Dr. Moore, that while the five-day process is "excellent" for treating the syphilitic infection, it brings "an enormous increase in the danger to the patient." A number of patients so treated developed skin poisonings, neuritis, encephalitis. One out of every 300 died, a rate more than four times higher than that in standard treatment...
...minutes later, as the wax began to drip on the frosting, tall, solemn, saint-pale Cordell Hull entered. This was his 70th birthday, and the cake was for him. The newspapermen, beaming like apple-polishing schoolboys, made him a little speech. He thanked them and made a little speech in return: ''. . . It is in times like this that each of us needs desperately to hold fast to the faith that is in us, a faith in the destiny of free men and the supreme worth of Christian morality...
Real news no longer flows out of Germany; it drips. Most correspondents have departed, and those who remain are fettered by ever-tightening censorship. Last week the drip of news became a trickle, perhaps the last in many a day. Home on the West Point were 118 U.S. diplomatic and consular officials, many of whom had been stationed in Germany until three weeks ago. Though closemouthed on orders of the State Department, they let fall these items of conditions inside Germany: ^ British bombing has been effective, not only in Hamburg but in Cologne. Thousands of women and children have been...
...City hospitals plan to treat early cases of syphilis with the five-day arsenic drip method (TIME, April 22, 1940). Since it seems that heavy doses of arsenic compound drain the body's supply of vitamin C, Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. has agreed to provide extra fruits and vegetables in an attempt to bolster up a number of reliefers with venereal infections...