Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worst of all, London's anti-raid defenses, though magnificent in their stubbornness, were strained to the very limit. No defense has ever been designed which can stop night air attacks. Last week Britain did the best it could with what it had. What it had were three fluid fortresses: the R. A. F., the balloon barrage, antiaircraft batteries...
...dark, quiet room the investigators put the patient on his back. They passed a slender tube through one nostril into his stomach, so that a sample of the stomach fluid could be tapped at any time. They talked soothingly to him, urged him to relax and think peaceful thoughts. When he was in a good frame of mind they took a stomach sample. Then they began to talk with him about other things (with the tube through his nostril he could talk well enough)-unpleasant things, things that made him resentful, anxious, angry, frustrated. They continued their calculated tactlessness till...
...invincibility for granted, poll findings made a deeper impression in Washington than elsewhere in the U. S. New Dealers solaced themselves with the belief that Wendell Willkie had reached the crest of his wave, would now decline. The FORTUNE Survey itself pointed out-"A public whose preferences are as fluid as the comparison of these returns indicates may react against the Republican candidate after the first delighted surprise at his nomination has worn off. And Willkie's opportunities to make mistakes in the campaign all lie ahead, while Roosevelt has had seven years in which, perhaps, to have made...
Last week as defeat-fluid France was poured inexorably into a Nazi mold, the U. S., like Britain before it, faced a similarly pregnant question: What if Britain should lose...
...unconscious "only for a moment" should never be sent home, but should be put to bed for two or three weeks. For many cases of brain injury do not show up until several hours or even days later. ¶ All severely injured brains are flooded with blood and spinal fluid. Many doctors believe that small amounts of surplus fluid must be drawn out to relieve pressure. that patients should be denied liquids. But Drs. Gross & Ehrlich consider drastic dehydration dangerous, achieve the same result in another way. They give hypertonic (heavy) glucose injections to patients in coma or shock...