Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...according to their strength. The most interesting item on the fourth day was a pair of William and Mary walnut chairs sold to Alvin T. Fuller (Governor of Massachusetts) for $1100. Receipts for four days of the sale totaled $490,200. And still, in the soft red room, the fluid light poured and eddied; the fine people came and went; the voice of the auctioneer trickled...
...seemed to greet one another with ingenuous, unmasked pleasure, but who spoke no words. The attentive noted that these silent folk looked at each other with wide, quick-moving eyes which certainly observed everything, especially the queerly gesticulating fingers of their fellows, fingers that seemed to fly in fluid curves, hooks and angles, fingers that flipped with exact intention. Then the realization came that these deaf persons had come to Trinity Church to attend the ordination to the Episcopal priesthood of James Stanley Slight...
...regular meeting of the Physiological Conference in Building C of the Bowditch Library of the Harvard Medical School at 4 o'clock this afternoon. His subject will be "The Effect of Concentration of Protein in the Plasma on the Distribution of Chloride between the Plasma and the Cerebral Spinal Fluid". The conference is open only to members of the University...
...There where the watermelon and the strawberry transform the midnight dew into luscious red juice; there where the springs gush forth that transparent and God-given fluid sparkling with purity and virtue, the only proper drink for an American citizen; but if there be those of a grosser appetite who want to violate the constitution of America, there is Bimini, only an hour or two away...
...MacDonald and Macleod have crushed beef livers (from healthy two-year-old animals), let serum rise from the maceration, filtered, titrated, decanted the serum, got a whitish grey fluid which they injected into the muscles of men suffering from high blood pressure...