Word: lancet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lighted match, carefully cupped in his hands, up to the cigaret, he emitted a mighty belch. There was a sudden flash of flame, a rumbling "poom," a smell of singed hair. The cigaret was projected by the explosion over three rows of seats. "In pain and confusion," declared the Lancet, British medical weekly, in reporting the case of this fiery belcher this month, "he had hurriedly to leave the cinema...
...cures of sickness no more signify an infallible remedy than do two swallow's make a summer. Nevertheless physicians were interested last week when Dr. Ronald Hare of London reported in the Lancet two cures of influenza pneumonia with serum prepared from human beings convalescing from influenza...
...blocks, the fish stare back with more than living fishiness. Seattle pays almost nothing to maintain the exhibit, charges no admission. The collection ranges from a shrimp to an 831-lb. sea lion. Some are common denizens of the Puget Sound region. Rarest are the snipe eel, lantern fish, lancet fish, sprakler, highbrow, and Willoughby's ragfish...
...Lancet, British medical weekly, Dr. Percival Macleod Yearsley declared that William Shakespeare's death at 52 resulted from a complication of fever, typhus, typhoid paralysis, epilepsy, apoplexy, arteriosclerosis, excessive smoking, chronic alcoholism, gluttony, angina pectoris, Bright's disease, pulmonary congestion, locomotor ataxia...
...English decorated period. (2.) A group of Tudor pavilions, loosely connected. (3.) A cloister, (4.) A court with details of: a. An Italian Gothic or Spanish arcade. b. An Elizabethan house. (5.) A central book tower armored with extremely heavy masonry under Romanesque inspiration, pierced by Early English lancet windows. (6.) Interiors designed with elaborate vaulting, Tudor bosses, medieval roof-painting, and furniture of Jacobean influence. (7.) A room in early Colonial style. (8.) Certain rooms to be decorated in High Renaissance style...