Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wire mesh in which the wires are only about .01 inch in diameter. To make long belts, sections of screen must be joined together. Arc welding or flame welding with a torch would be cheap and convenient, but it is impracticable because if the heat is applied an instant too long, the soft brass or bronze is burned and the seam ruined. In the Longoria device the weld is made with a small needle projecting from an insulated handle. When the needle is lifted from the seam, current stored in three condensers is discharged, a spark jumps...
...measures the blood pressure by wrapping around the patient's upper arm a hollow rubber cuff to which is connected a graduated column of mercury. Applying a stethoscope over an artery in the forearm, the doctor pumps air into the hollow cuff until it stops circulation. At this instant the air pressure in the cuff equals the maximum (systolic) blood pressure in the arteries of the arm, and the doctor hears a sharp blowing sound in his stethoscope. Whatever figure the sphygmomanometer gauge shows at that instant is the patient's systolic pressure...
...cruise on Chesapeake Bay with 235 Automobile Trade Association Conventionites, Maryland's roly-poly Governor Henry Whinna Nice was in the forward saloon with everyone else about 10 p. m. cheering a rowdy chorus-girl show, when there came four blasts of the ship's whistle. Instant later, passengers were knocked sprawling as the steel bow of the freighter Golden Harvest chopped ten feet into the State of Virginia's side a few yards aft of the merrymakers. No one was seriously hurt. Taken off four and a half hours later by a ferryboat, Governor Nice telegraphed...
...instant an embolus seats itself like a valve in an artery, the victim usually feels an excruciating pain at that point. Simultaneously "the affected extremity becomes paralyzed, cold and pale, the pulses disappear, and in a few hours the skin becomes mottled with a bluish hue. . . . On the fingers and toes, or sometimes over prominent bones . . . dark blisters appear which may open and from which the gangrene spreads...
...deficit will be." Earlier in the week rumors that British civil servants were planning to go on a stayin strike for more pay similar to those in France caused Chancellor Chamberlain to tell the House: "Civil servants who seek to indulge in such strike tactics render themselves liable to instant dismissal...