Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Because of the patented Daimler "fluid flywheel," a device which eliminates the clutch and gives a softness of action which hard British sportsmen describe as "all right for an elderly couple out shopping...
...brilliant, Indianapolis-born Dr. Irvine Heinly Page, 34, of Rockefeller Institute, saluted his new responsibilities by publishing a new fact he had just discovered concerning hypertension, or high blood pressure caused by spasmodic constriction in blood vessels. In Science he stated that the brains of hypertensive individuals contain a fluid which causes blood vessels to contract. The vessels most affected are those great ones which supply blood to the stomach, intestines, spleen, pancreas, liver and kidneys. The fluid lies mainly within the all-important cavity of the brain called the betweenbrain...
...floor of the St. Louis Merchants Exchange where he is currently reported making his third fortune after his second bankruptcy, Jesse Livermore Sr. was notified of the shooting. Silently he and his third wife took plane for California. On the second day doctors operated to drain fluid from the boy's pierced lung, still dared not touch the bullet. Uncertain whether he would live, police jailed Mrs. Livermore for attempted murder. Up & down the hospital corridor paced Jesse Livermore Sr., swearing that if his son died he would "spend every cent to see that she gets what is coming...
...tapestry paintings are very good things to do for an artist who has children to take care of. You see painting is continuous and more fluid than this sort of thing. You must sustain a mood. This can be picked up and put down at will. It is more precise and you must have time to think your effects out well ahead of time. It never used to hurt my eyes either, but I'm afraid it does a little now. I shan't do any more of them. I am appalled at the thought of the work...
...partial vacuum of those pleural cavities the lungs expand and collapse, expand and collapse with each breath. Sometimes infection inflames the lining of a pleural cavity, causes an exudation which fills the cavity and leaves no space for the lung to expand. In such a case of pleurisy, the fluid has to be drained off through a hollow needle carefully pushed in between a pair of ribs...