Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test works a good deal like skin-testing for allergy. The test material is colostrum-a thin, watery fluid secreted in the breasts of gravid women. From them colostrum is extracted, mixed with sterile salt solution and a preservative chemical, stored under refrigeration to await use. To make a Falls test, a small amount of the colostrum preparation is injected into a woman's forearm. If she is not pregnant, a reddish weal will appear. If she is pregnant she will not react. Theory is that pregnant women, secreting colostrum of their own, are immune to injections...
Lung injurants caused most of the gas fatalities in World War I. They cause blood fluid to flood the lung's air sacs, killing the victim very much as drowning does. The principal types used in the last war were chlorine and phosgene; types have also been perfected which include a little arsenic just in case the victim survives lung injury...
...sharp wires with handles at each end. The Guardsman holds both handles in his right hand, slips the wire loop over a German's head from behind, holds his left hand against the enemy's head, and pulls. The wire passes through a man's neck with the same fluid case as through cheese...
...waging war are overhauled, precepts modernized. No last-minute second-guesser, the Infantry's chief sat down one day in mid-1939, pondered French and German infantry texts, began to pencil a revision of the U. S. foot soldiers' bible. Editor Lynch concurred with German theories of fluid movement, frowned on French notions of static, dig-in defense. Last June, dispatches from Paris indicated that he had been dead right...
Fell in with a carefree group of those clever Yale News boys on the street-car going up to the bowl. One of them tried to give me a hot-foot with his cigarette lighter. He was all out of fluid though--one of the other boys admitted he had drunk...