Word: fluidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young scientist came to Harvard on January 1, on a $3750-a-year fellowship awarded by the AEC. His work is non-secret and concerns fluid balance in the body in certain surgical diseases...
...hormone, estrone, in the urine increases greatly after conception. First, Dr. Richardson puts a specimen of urine in a special double-barreled test tube he invented. Then he gets rid of other hormones (progesterone derivatives), which might interfere with the test, by mixing in chloroform and sodium hydroxide. The fluid containing estrone rises to the top. This fluid is put in two other test tubes and a different chemical reagent added to each, for a double check. If the patient is pregnant, one reagent turns the solution dark brown; the other makes it reddish purple.* With both reagents, it becomes...
...Hygiene Department may intervene if specimens preserved in methyl alcohol are served in the Dining Halls, since this fluid often causes blindness. Therefore, these alcohol-soaked specimens may be sold to the local institutions for the blind where the inmates would suffer no ill-effects. And thus the University would find another source of income...
Callanan, who is pretty happy over the way his men have adapted themselves to the English style of playing football, has several good backs. Captain Joe Eaton, John Densmore, and former varsity gridder Sam Adams all show speed and a knack in handling the ball in the fluid and constant action which typifies rugger...
Lacrosse is a fluid game, resembling hockey played on a field 110 yards long and 60 to 70 yards wide. The object of the game, according to the august words of the Official Rules, is "to score by causing the ball to enter the opponent's goal." For this purpose the lacrosse player is given a crosse made of four to six feet of wood topped by a rawhide net in which the ball is caught and carried around the field. The ball can be kicked but not touched by the hands...