Word: lancet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposed to impose a 70% ad valorem duty on surgical instruments. A German lancet is purchased in Berlin for $1.50. By foreign valuation it would pay a duty of $1.05 on entering the U. S. and go into the domestic market at $2.55. A U. S. lancet of the same character and quality sells for $2.50. If U. S. Valuation were applied to the German lancet on import, it would have to pay a duty of $1.75, giving it a sale price...
...Physicians attending His Majesty George V again reviewed his illness for The Lancet...
...statement to this startling effect and a masterly review of the Sovereign's entire illness was issued, last week, by the Royal physicians, and printed simultaneously in the Lancet and the British Medical Journal. The thirteen days from Dec. 2 to Dec. 15 were mentioned as the most critical; and His Majesty's condition of last week was described thus: "It will be apparent to medical men that not only the severity and the length of the infection but the exhaustion resulting therefrom must make progress slow and difficult...
...girl was next brought in. She, pretty Maria Elena Manzano, 21, had previously confessed that Mother Concepcion told her to dance with General Obregon and prick him with a poisoned lancet. Further she stated that she had been upbraided by Mother Concepcion for losing her nerve and failing to prick...
This Maria knew that she could do. Secreted on her person was a lancet covered with a deadly poison; whether she would have the courage or the opportunity to administer without detection a tiny scratch upon the hands of her distinguished partners, she did not know. However, her companions carried six-shooting, surer weapons in the event that she should fail...