Word: kit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scent, the professor returned to Harvard, wrote in the Alumni Bulletin that if any generous alumnus provided him with a suitable boat, he would be glad to pilot the donor over Columbus' whole route. Alumni and three foundations soon gave him a boat, sails, oils, wines, a surgical kit, heraldic designs and flags. When he sailed this week in his Capitana (named for the flagship of Columbus' third voyage), he had a few items that Columbus lacked: an auxiliary Diesel engine, a direction finder, a two-way radio set. Professor Morison headed for the Azores, where a second...
When the rig was ready, two of the outlet tubes he inserted into the babies' nostrils. After they began to gasp again, he pulled out the nostril tubes, attached a rubber mask made from an old stomach pump in his instrument kit to the fourth tube, held it for a few minutes over each baby's nose. In a short time their pinched blue faces turned red again and they began to breathe normally...
Deputies who were in the Army appeared in grey Hungarian campaign kit. Forty Nazi deputies, fresh from decorating Budapest's Cenotaph, rolled up to the House of Parliament in a parade of swastika-decked automobiles and clumped into the Chamber in high boots, black trousers and green shirts. Nazis who were outraged when a Jewish photographer took their picture were admonished by their leader that "propaganda comes before all." The Hungarian Life Party members, supporters of the Government, came dressed in all black uniforms. Sole mufti-clad deputy was outspoken Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csaky, who thinks the Government...
...Chinese peasant, brown as the earth he tills, may placidly hoe his rows; by night he may be part of a guerrilla band that is chivying Japanese sentries; next day, when the Japanese start reprisals, he will be back on his acre, his gun and soldier's kit buried, a blank look on his face...
From Mount Gilead each year, the Drs. Robinson ship thousands of gallons of medicine concocted from a secret formula which they purchased from respectable old Dr. Tucker before he died in 1920. The medicine, which contains small amounts of cocaine, is sold, complete with atomizer and carrying kit, for $12.50 to any asthma sufferer, sight unseen, who mails in a questionnaire...