Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soft-drink manufacturer turning 50 was in bad shape with an enlarged and failing heart, breathlessness, weakness and fluid retention (the old-time "dropsy"). His blood pressure had soared to 230 over 146. He was the first patient given hydralazine at the clinic, and remains one of its best testimonials. In more than five years he has had no signs of heart failure (though the heart is still enlarged), no worsening of kidney trouble, and he does a full day's work...
...remains. Probably the first man to practice intravenous embalming in the U.S. was Thomas H. Holmes of New York, a flashy individual who made $400,000 during the Civil War by embalming war dead, lost it all and went to live in Brooklyn, where he manufactured embalming fluid as well as "a tasty root beer." Competitors soon came out with "Crane's Electro-Dynamic Mummifier," "Professor Rhodes' Electric Balm," and a popular fluid known as Utopia." In 1882 the first embalming school offered a three-week course...
...Committee on Appointments is expected to deal in part with the advisability of increasing the size of the faculty, and the steps necessary to doing so. The Committee on Compensation is expected to enquire into such matters as fixed and fluid costs in the College, as well as any future improvements in the form of insurance or other benefits that might go to the faculty instead of a straight salary...
...country is so bowel-minded anyway-to know that the President had a good movement this morning, and it is important. It is good for the morale of the people for one thing . . . Also he perspired a good deal in the first 36 hours, and so he lost fluid that way. He replaced it. He drank a good deal and has kept up all right. But that is one of the reasons why some patients don't have any bowel movement for several days. So this is an encouraging point...
...Rosenkavalier by New York City Opera's Contralto Frances Bible and German Bass Baritone Otto Edelmann, in Don Giovanni by Metropolitan Opera Basso Cesare Siepi and Soprano Licia Albanese and the Rochester (N.Y.) Philharmonic's Conductor Erich Leinsdorf in both. Standout: Leo Kerz's imaginative, fluid settings projected behind fixed arches onto a backdrop screen. Ahead for the enterprising San Francisco Opera this season: the U.S. premiere of Sir William Walton's Troilus and Cressida (TIME, Dec. 13), and a revival of Rimsky-Korsakov's Coq d'Or with first-rate Negro Coloratura Mattiwilda...