Word: hollowing
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...while the other lung, with no appreciable inconvenience, takes up a double burden for the rest of the patient's life. Thoracoplasty is not to be confused with artificial pneumothorax or with phrenicotomy, other efficient and less drastic methods of resting a tuberculous lung. In artificial pneumothorax a hollow needle is inserted between two ribs. Air is pumped into the pleural cavity of the affected side until pressure prevents the lung from expanding. Nor can a diseased lung expand when nerves which control that side of the diaphragm are cut (phrenicotomy). Although little known at New Orleans last week...
...meetings will be led by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory. In one on cosmogony he will give a series of lectures on the physical universe and the relation of the earth, solar system, and galaxy to the rest of the cosmos. The other colloquium will concern hollow squares, consisting of informal discussions of various observational and theoretical investigations...
Frankly it looks as if many months would be required to combat the forces behind the bill. These forces are numerous, powerful and utterly unscrupulous. First comes Representative Dorgan, father of many eye-catching, hollow and communist-baiting bits of worthless legislation. Mr. Dorgan's forte lies in bills to purify the theatre (especially Shakespeare), keep our American youth unsullied from the myriad wiles and snares of Moscow, and prevent the Red universities of Massachusetts from completely seducing the young...
Amid the shadows hollow and deep...
...great issue under Roosevelt I, Senator Borah was in the thick of the fight. Since then political ideology has moved on into fresher fields, more social than economic, with the result that the Idahoan of 1906 is left battling a foe which to 1936 liberals is but hollow husk...