Word: intact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through the third, fourth and fifth ribs close to the spinal column, snip free and short-circuit the four nerves of the sympathetic system (between the second and fifth vertebrae) which lead directly to the heart. With exquisite care Dr. Raney avoided damaging other surrounding tissues, left enough nerves intact so that the patient could feel the "warning signal" of angina. Thus, although free of pain, he can still take proper precautions to prolong his life...
Made head of a feast-or-famine business in 1929, Lewis Brown pulled it through the century's worst depression intact (only deficit: $2,829,000 in 1932). The New Deal's Monopoly Committee regarded J.M. under him as an example of enlightened management in Big Business; he was summoned to Washington at the beginning of Depression II to give his views to Franklin Roosevelt. Neatest trick of all, Johns-Manville has C. I. O., A. F. of L. and independent unions scattered through its plants, firmly opposes closed shop, is at present on good terms with...
Drunk with the new wine, success, the Chinese tried another daring thrust. In broad daylight eight bombers flew 450 miles from Chungking to Hankow, where they bombed the Japanese air base. They claimed to have destroyed 50 out of 180 Japanese planes, to have returned intact. Japanese admitted that bombs had hit stores of gasoline at their air base, "causing explosions that rocked the city...
Since Renascence (1917) Millay has published 14 books of verse that have in one way or another kept her title intact. Though she has shown an increasing disillusionment with the world, the world has refused to be disillusioned with her. She can say that life, which she once felt was a flame, is really a frost, and be thanked for the pains of saying...
...would have to be a redistribution of colonies. But if Hitler could be made to disarm, the victory would be likewise great for the democracies. Hitlerism-gangsterism as a diplomatic weapon-would be gone, and Europe could once more breathe easy. The British and French Empires would be reasonably intact. And there would be peace for our time...