Word: injection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England, two Harvard Medical School specialists, Majors Charles Emerson and Richard Ebert, have devised an apparatus for transferring blood within battle lines weighing only 34 pounds, which can be used to draw blood from a healthy donor and to inject it into the veins of a wounded soldier in five minutes...
...house and laid me under a grapevine a few yards down the road. Out of a large cylinder he took two bottles. One held powder, the other liquid. He mixed the two in a bottle, which he hung to the grape arbor by a string, and prepared to inject me with plasma...
...were nearly always associated with an outstanding individual and not with a political system. We think of Queen Elizabeth, and Sir Francis Drake, or Marlborough, Pitt and Nelson and of the Duke of Wellington; and it is on the ability to keep alive the spirit of adventure and to inject into public opinion new, fanciful and unorthodox ideas that the vigor of national life depends. Nothing could be more ghastly than a uniform cowlike public opinion which is left willing to browse on artificially fertilized fields and chew the cud of common pasture...
...penny, Lincoln or Indian, with salt or without, is only one-fifth of a nickel, no matter who your section man was in Ec A. And when unscrupulous people inject a penny into an unsuspecting pay phone, with salt or without (although the salt, experts will tell you, is indispensable) that means the stockholders, about a million of them in this case, are out $.04, or a net loss of return on investment of 80%. And you can't run a business with that kind of a loss, whether you've been retooled by the Busy School...
...attempt to inject some spirit into the members of the Naval R.O.T.C., and also to help break up the monotony of their calisthenics. Chief Petty Officer Frank Patrick, head of Navy Sci athletics, has organized four basketball teams among his men and entered them in an intra-mural league which also includes the eight House teams...