Word: graftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gangsters. Hull and Churchill are a couple of cops. All right, we're in a big city-say Chicago. The cops are interested in law & order and in keeping business going. Oh, sure, they'll accept a cigar, or an apple from the fruit stand. ... All honest graft, you know-say, like Governments have trade treaties and favored-nations clauses and a little international edge here and there. But on the whole the cops really do keep peace and stop fights between the neighbors and keep the city going...
...simpler glue: a solution of gum acacia (fortified with vitamin B). But despite this glue, he noted that a severed nerve tends to retract both ways so that connection of the ends is still difficult. This tension can be avoided, Dr. de Rezende found, by inserting a nerve graft between the severed ends. On the legs of monkeys, rabbits and dogs he performed some 60 nerve-grafting operations, taking his grafts from dead animals of the same species. Nearly half his operations he termed successful: the animals regained good use of their limbs...
...Nerve grafts from cadavers can be preserved for long periods, Dr. de Rezende found, in either liquid petrolatum or alcohol. The grafted nerve tissue need not be "alive" when transplanted. Reason: "The function of the nerve transplant is to a large extent merely mechanical. The graft presents thousands of microscopic channels which will help the down-growth of the neurofibrils...
...Michigan Republicans, by a resounding 2-to-1, rejected Gerald L. K. Smith, who had been doing his best to rouse the rabble within them. They gave their allegiance to Judge Homer Ferguson. By naming a good and honest Judge who had cleaned up much of Detroit's graft and corruption, the Republicans assured the State of a knockdown contest in November between two better-than-average candidates. The Judge's opponent: able Democrat Prentiss M. Brown, now steering the anti-inflation bill through the Senate...
Says he: "People say it's no use trying to clean up a city because graft is bound to spring up again. Sure it is. That's why you have to keep after it all the time. You might as well say that it's no use to clean your house because it will get dirty again. This is a democracy and we have got to make it work, and the place to start is right at home...