Word: flows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capital feels let down, ignored, disregarded. It was the center of planning and procurement during the war. It is the continuous host of Congress, from which all appropriations flow. Yet, except for a few baubles given to the womenfolk of important officials when they smashed bottles on the sides of ships, and the occasional loan of an automobile and a 'C' card, Washington saw nothing of the saturnalia of wartime on which the Senate committee has lifted the curtain...
Prewar, Europe's not-too-healthy economy was partly sustained by the flow of such eastern products westward in exchange for machinery and manufactured goods which Russia is in no position to supply. Continued Soviet draining would plunge European living standards still farther, even below the Russian level of life, which has been described as a permanent economic depression...
They tied a tourniquet on a rabbit's hind leg, injected India ink or other opaque fluids into its arteries (to make the blood flow visible) and watched the results by X ray. The experiments soon solved the "crush syndrome" mystery: prolonged pressure on the leg arteries produced spasms of nearby blood vessels, which, among other things, blocked the normal circulation in the kidneys...
...stimulation of certain nerves produced the same result; so did severe hemorrhages, heavy doses of certain hormones (e.g., adrenalin, pituitrin), and injections of the poison secreted by staphylococcus germs. All of these stimuli, the investigators decided, activate nerves which constrict the kidneys' blood vessels and divert the blood flow from the small vessels in the cortex to the larger ones in the medulla. Lack of blood in the cortex, in turn, raises blood pressure (an automatic adjustment of the body trying to force more blood intp the cortex...
...utilitarian gates and plaques, Alumni have been known to make other little donations to the University-libraries, scholarships, and dollars in the amount of several score millions. Without the contributions of Alumni to the University coffers, Harvard could hardly have reached its present status, and were the golden flow suddenly quenched, the University would find it necessary to curtail many of its most valuable activities...