Word: icebox
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...appears at his office at 7 every morning, leaves after 7 at night. But two days before a spectacular goes on the air, he turns, up at NBC's vast Brooklyn studio at 8 a.m. for a 40-hour siege. He is equipped with a cot and icebox and, for emergencies, aspirin, Empirin, Desoxyn, phenobarbital and Dexedrine...
...warmth that commands affection, and some strong likes and dislikes that testify to his this-worldliness. He interests himself in his students and used to serve them tea in his Prescott Street apartment--a custom which may have been crimped by his penchant for keeping books in the icebox. To his Cambridge friends of many years he has become something "rare and special." To even a casual acquaintance, he is a compelling figure...
...Icebox Will Do. In preserving the blood's white cells (twice as big as the red, 7,000 to a cu. mm.), researchers could report no comparable success. But they had at least some good news: they have concentrated the substance (a protein) that stimulates white cells to devour invading bacteria and thus makes them the body's shock troops against infection. If an injection could whet the white cells' appetite, it would be a powerful reinforcement of the body's natural defenses...
...holes in the walls of blood vessels. Platelets, it was long feared, were too fragile ever to be preserved. But Dr. Tullis and his colleagues have found that by handling blood in nonwettable plastic vessels, and removing other clotting proteins, platelets can be separated and kept indefinitely at ordinary icebox temperatures...
...frugality, once rebuked an insurance executive for giving a stenographer a $5 raise after 20 years' service with the company. But Mrs. Northen was even more frugal. Until a few years ago, she had no modern appliances in her home; food was kept in an old-fashioned icebox. She had no radio, and her house was heated by a wood stove. She dressed plainly, wore black cotton stockings. She drove a 1928 Studebaker until her father heard that people were laughing at her and gave her a Cadillac...