Word: hem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tricks that brought him quick professional reputation. He devised the most successful way of sewing the cut ends of an artery together: put draw strings through each end of the artery: pull until the circular edges acquire a triangular shape; bend the flaps outward; put the two triangles together; hem the fringe of flaps together. The inside of the artery is now smooth; hence no blood clot will form there...
...gentleman with the shadowy cloak of anonymity began to hem...
...Africa. Ever since the gaudy coronation of kinky-haired Power of Trinity I as Emperor four years ago (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930), the country has been a secret battleground for Europe's colonizing Great Powers. Only port of entry is Djibouti in French Somaliland. Otherwise Italy and Britain hem the country in on all sides. In addition Japanese tycoons who have been dumping cheap cotton goods and manufactures in the country, are negotiating for great tracts of land to grow their own cotton in Abyssinia. Foreign observers believe that France and Britain are now willing for Italy to "influence" Abyssinia...
WINNER TAKE NOTHING-Ernest Hem-ingway-Scribner...
...work of their minds. . . . They admitted that Hemingway was yellow, he is. Gertrude Stein insisted, just .ike the flatboat men on the Mississippi river as described by Mark Twain ... he looks like a modern and he smells of the museums. But what a story that of the real Hem. and one he should tell himself but alas he never will. After all, as he himself once murmured, there is the career, the career." Gertrude Stein once told him: "Hemingway, after all you are 90% Rotarian. Can't you. he said, make it 80%. No. said she regretfully...