Word: graftings
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This week, having registered perfunctory protest against politics and graft but not caring to go on record against relief in an election year. Republican Representatives joined Democrats in passing the Deficiency Bill by a whacking...
...newspaper agency. He had flunked German and English in the entrance exams, and didn't write off a con in English until his senior year. But this ponderous and solumn Iowan had introduced a scheme for handling athletic, social, and campus organization funds that eliminated waste and graft to a "T". Few people noticed that he was also a wizard with a slide rule and geology maps...
...superintendent is just two years over from Scotland "where there's no graft in government. Over there you can't get things fixed. Over here the whole government is corrupt. The police, courts, everybody. Except Milwaukee. Therrre's a fine city." He has a wonderful burr in his voice...
With his patient under anesthetic, he loosens a strip of conjunctiva, about a quarter of an inch wide, from the upper part of the eyeball. This is to function later as a bandage to hold the graft in position until it takes hold of the host...
...shade more than one-sixth of an inch. He has already applied the trephine to the cold-storage eye which an assistant holds by means of sterile gauze. Transferring the donor cornea to the host eye is the work of only a few minutes. Dr. Filatov straps the graft in position with the prepared strip of conjunctiva, withdraws the ivory guard from its slots, bandages both eyes to immobilize the engrafted one as much as possible. After a lapse of weeks the patient can see, adequately if not perfectly. In his last week's report Dr. Filatov remarked...