Word: glue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hitler's struggles, as seen by Fredborg, resemble those of a fly struggling to get out of a pot of glue. If Hitler had not dominated the plan for attack on Russia, the German Army might have used an adaptation of the old Schlieffen strategy offered by General Marcks. The Marcks plan was to prepare a tremendous mass concentration in the Balkans, which the Russians might logically interpret as a move against Turkey. Then, without warning, the concentration could have been hurled against the Ukraine, with an ultimate wheeling turn toward Moscow up the valleys of the Dnieper...
...Livers. When Dr. Sano announced her glue last July in the American Journal of Surgery, it was already being used successfully on Temple University Hospital skin-graft patients. In Science last week, she and Surgeon Clarence A. Holland made a new announcement...
...glue need not necessarily be made from the patient's own blood. Anyone's blood will do. But the patient's blood is usually easiest...
...Sano says that cut livers will stick together fairly well without her glue but are likely to come apart because of bleeding. Her glue stops bleeding...
When Peter Cooper ran for President, on the Greenback ticket, he got 82,000 votes. But he was one of the most wonderful grandfathers who ever lived. His prosperous glue (and gelatin) factory, at Madison Avenue and sist Street in Manhattan, would have made him a fortune even if he had not invented the mercury vapor lamp, built the first American steam locomotive, or helped finance the Atlantic cable. His long white hair reached almost to his shoulders. He shaved himself with a razor used by George Washington. He wore a black frock coat, a black stock about his neck...