Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said Surgeon General Thomas Parran Jr. in Washington, apropos of nothing: "I feel confident another ten years could be added to the life expectancy, entirely aside from the possibility of discovering an effective preventive for cancer or major heart disease"-if doctors could offer and people would utilize all the medical knowledge now available...
...heart, the blood vessels and the kidneys work together in taking care of the fluids of the body. In good health, fluid swallowed as drink or inj food is absorbed from the lower intestine into the lymph system, into the blood stream. Most fluid which the blood does not require strains through the kidneys into the bladder. Any clogging of the kidneys causes a back pressure of blood in the arteries and heart...
...hardening of the arteries or chronic contraction of the very fine blood vessels also causes back pressure on the heart, and usually extra pressure upon the straining mechanism of the kidneys...
...what his master had taught him always to do when he saw an armed man. He catapulted with all four feet against the policeman's chest and belly. Down in a heap went man and dog. Bang went the gun, putting a bullet through Patrick Conroy's heart...
Boulder Dam on the Colorado River is the world's biggest dam, but the Grand Coulee project on the Columbia River will be much bigger. This mighty barrier in the wild heart of Washington, 92 miles west of Spokane, will be not only the world's greatest but the costliest engineering job ever undertaken by man. The dam, power plant and irrigation canals will cost some $400,000,000-$25.000,000 more than the Panama Canal. The rampart across the Columbia, which has ten times the annual run-off of the Colorado, will be 4,300 ft. long...