Word: intact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clinical importance. The behavior of certain dyes in the tissues showed that, once the lymphatics had been destroyed, the fluids formerly carried off by them circulated purely by gravity, passing from the legs to the abdominal region, whence it was carried to parts of the body whose lymphatics were intact. (A lymphatic is a vessel which carries the watery tissue fluids into the blood stream.) One woman who came to Dr. Homans for treatment was sent home and told to keep her leg elevated for one week. At the end of that time she had lost forty pounds--approximately five...
...control by periodic abstinence rather than by mechanical or chemical means. Last week Dr. Burr cheered such folk by effectively contradicting his denial. Stated he in Science: "The use of the Burr-Lane-Nimms technique enables one to determine with certainty and accuracy the time of ovulation in an intact human being...
...farm near Garnavillo, Iowa. His father, whom he still calls "the best butter maker in Iowa," wanted him to play the piano, compromised on a clarinet, but Freddie says he always broke the reed just before school band practice. When he was 21 and able to keep a reed intact, Freddie bought a dinner jacket and got a job in an Orpheum Circuit band. Later Freddie Fisher thought up the name "Schnickelfritz" (German slang for silly fellow), and assembled five men to play a permanent date in a tavern in Winona, Minn. Frankly out to build up a novelty band...
...acquired his extraordinary fame, and 2) why. despite the fact that his prose (Arcadia, Defence of Poesie) and poetry (Astrophel and Stella) are today practically unread and unreadable, and his career no more interesting than that of half a dozen forgotten contemporaries, the aura of that fame has clung intact to his name ever since. Biographers have carefully recorded the facts of his career (better documented, less clouded by legend than most Elizabethans), have noted that his death inspired more than 200 elegies exhausting the superlatives of friends and enemies alike. W?here biographers have struck a snag has been...
...into which 13 years before His Late Majesty had sealed the names of three Egyptians whom he wished to act as Regents during the minority of the present King. A flashlight and a magnifying glass were produced to aid the speaker in officially determining that the seals were authentic, intact. As he fumbled, the Barlman grew more & more excited, Deputies and Senators shouting their advice until finally the Egyptian President declared himself too overwrought to open the envelope and it was slit by a less nervous Senator...