Word: injection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pessimists declared that the conference may well prove a mere official pool of ideas, out of which a basis for the drafting of subsequent treaties at subsequent conferences may or may not arise. They made the following observations: 1) Germany, early last week, attempted to inject a denial of her War guilt and a request for the evacuation of Cologne by the Allies into her acceptance of the Allied invitation to Locarno. She was promptly squelched by diplomatic reprimands from Allies, and is coming to the conference anyway. But, Stresemann should insist on introducing either of these matters...
...Washington, Senator King of Utah described certain persons (presumably not his constituents from Utah-rather, lobbyists from other states) : "Congress every session is besieged by hysteric men and neurotic women who are seeking to have the Government inject itself into the homes of the people and forcefully determine the conduct of their lives...
...then, even if a man's blood is clean, we cannot inject it into the veins of any patient. The blood of different people varies greatly in its chemical composition, and if the wrong kind of blood is put in a patient it is very likely to kill him immediately. So we have to examine the blood of both donor and patient very carefully to make sure that no such catastrophe could possibly occur...
...called The Road to Yesterday. The characters stare soulfully at the spotlight and wish for the romantic glory of the Middle Ages; the lights go out, stage hands scurry and scenery bumps in the darkness; the lights revive on a 15th Century garden. Victor Herbert snatched the opportunity to inject a rousing old-fashioned marching-drinking song which, with The Dream Girl ballad and Miss Bainter's I Want to Go Home, are the leaders of a highly melodious evening...
Horses. The "horse serum," in use heretofore, had been regarded by many as worse than the disease it was meant to cure. It is made by injecting pneumonia germs (called pneumococci) into the blood of a horse. The horse then develops in his blood a substance which aids in destroying or digesting these germs. This substance-the so-called "antibody"-is known to be carried in the serum, or "clear liquid" of the blood. The remedial method in using the "horse serum" was to inject a large quantity of highly diluted serum into the human patient. This serum generally brought...