Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herriot declared his unwillingness to serve beneath his confrere. M. Briand saw open before him the prospect of continuing indefinitely his struggles of many months to juggle a majority out of fluid and irresponsible Chamber blocs. In effect Aristide Briand threw up his hands, cried: "I am through! Let Herriot see what...
...There were no signs of erysipelas, wounds, boils, suppurating sweat glands, and very little likelihood of any decay of a bone in the skull. Encephalocele, a tumor formed by the sticking out through the soft infantile skull of the membranes of the brain, with brain matter and cerebrospinal fluid? No. This bump was too firm. Meningocele, a tumor containing the meninges of the brain and spinal fluid? Probably not, because a meningocele usually protrudes through an unossified part of the skull, usually at the back, sometimes at the root of the nose...
Milk. At childbirth the mother's breasts yield a yellowish, sticky fluid called colostrum. This is good for the child, although it is only slightly nourishing. Yet it is laxative and prepares the child's stomach for true milk, which arrives shortly after...
...most preferable food, yet sustaining to life. In some cases this milk had to be fortified with sugar. Then the infants gained rapidly. Later they were able to go on a diet of cow milk formula. They gained well, probably because of the additional protein present in the fresh fluid...
...Jersey deprecated any great danger, pointed to new saving methods. Henry L. Doherty, gas expert, maintained oil was being burned wastefully, produced wastefully. His researches show that oil pools should be operated as units to maintain below ground the pressure of gasses dissolved in petroleum, making it more fluid. Much oil is now lost on subterranean sands whence it cannot be extracted because of its viscosity when released from gas pressure...