Word: fastens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the lungs by way of the blood they clog the bronchioles, the tiny air passages, and so give one form of bronchopneumonia. They frequently are secondary invaders in diphtheria, scarlet fever and smallpox. In septicemia, bacterial blood poisoning, these germs may snake along to the heart, where they fasten themselves to the inner heart membranes; or they may grow to the lips of the heart valves, causing thereby valvular troubles. The toxins may cause rotting of the lobules of the liver and of certain passages of the kidneys. They are the causative agents of erysipelas...
...fasten the humble foot board...
...must have you to fasten...
...Commons. But our Freshmen today have little to complain of beside the stinking meals, the flint-like bread, the sour beer and cider of those days. Pie was introduced, after many riots, and we are told that, such was the durability of this dainty, thrifty students were wont to fasten their share to the bottom of the table with a fork (after forks had been introduced!) against leaner times...
...expected that the Joan, brought to us by Shaw, is the Joan of our first love. She does not trail clouds of glory, nor converse with winged angels, nor does she fasten her locks within the confines of a regulation halo. She is the lass rather than the Maid...