Word: injection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...19th Century. The tiny virus that causes it (one of the smallest known) attacks only nerve cells, is almost never found in the blood. The disease occurs naturally only in man; researchers have been able to reproduce it artificially only in monkeys, cotton rats and specially bred mice (by injection of certain strains of the virus). Because its symptoms-sore throat, fever, headache, nausea, muscle stiffness-are much like those of the common cold, polio is hard to diagnose in its early stages; the only sure way is to inject an extract from the patient's excreta into...
...have a somewhat cheerier outlook than usual when practice starts on Soldier's Field the day after Labor Day. It's conceded that the Yalies, among others, will present an awesome spectacle come November, but at least the Cambridge oologist has the basis for a Varsity squad which might inject a few surprises into the Eastern grid-iron picture...
Hamilton's mystery, despite its premature denouement, is properly grim and gripping, and if the actors occasionally fail to inject into the lines all their inherent terror and sombreness of mood, a competent framework is still present. Making all the necessary preliminary reservations about summer productions, they have an interesting chiller on Brattle Street this week...
Sherlock Holmes would have been at home in Brazil, land of the needle. Brazilians consider an injection, rather than a pill, the handiest way to cure anything from calcium deficiency to syphilis. Stenographers inject each other with vitamin compounds at tea time. Druggists give shots to customers in back rooms, send errand boys out to needle homebound clients. The charge: 15?. Thus, when the Government last fortnight banned drugstore injections, it threatened the clinical habits of a nation. Grounds: insanitary needles. Real reason: the dope needle was also flourishing...
...fallen out with the giants. Don Nelson, now president of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers, after a headlined career as boss of the old War Production Board, and "Rox" Ryan now president of the Whitney Department Store, Spiegel subsidiary in San Diego, Calif., were expected to inject big-time know-how into Spiegel policies...