Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nonetheless Mrs. Smith last week cried to court for blood tests. They were permitted, and the two men, the mother and the child each gave up a few drops of their blood. It was with quite different emotions that the adults learned that all four individuals had exactly the same type, that the point at issue could have no medical proof...
That there are four different types of human blood has another, and far greater significance in medicine. For blood transfusions bloods must not be antagonistic. Blood group IV in emergency may be used for any transfusion. It has general characteristics. People of the other three groups can furnish their blood only to patients of their own type...
Such commercial traffic has dangers. It cannot be closely supervised. Many a blood seller is diseased, many a one sells too often. It takes four to five weeks for such to replace their lost blood properly to provide for another transfusion. A doctor sometimes needs a donor in a hurry and has no time to make thorough blood tests and counts. He must rely on a seller's word, and many a man who will sell blood for a living will tell lies...
...strokes to the minute and they had increased their lead to two lengths. On and on−past Duke's Meadows, Barnes Bridge, Mortlake Brewery and finally to the finish line the Cantabs sped with steady rhythm. They finished seven boat-lengths in the lead, rowing the four miles...
Back to England, a month ago, sailed a gossipy-garrulous young Britisher named Beverley Nichols. For some time he had been selling his books and lectures of familiar chit-chat about the world's Great and Near-Great, to the fame-hungry US. public. For four months he had edited a monthly smartchart called the American Sketch for Doubleday, Doran & Co. (TIME, Dec. 17). Upon leaving he told people that he was bored with the American Sketch and had decided to go home and pick up more chit-chat to put into more books for more money. Doubleday, Doran...