Word: lancet
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Slim as a lancet, her trim superstructure melting into as slick an air-flow contour as any Hollywood futurist ever conceived, the 112-foot triple-screw yacht Q. E. D. poised one afternoon last week ready to glide down her skids for a maiden wetting in the ebbing waters of Manhattan's malodorous Harlem River. Beneath the concave bows of this fuselage-shaped ship stood her owner and chief designer, round, rubicund Hollander Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, an old hand at aircrafting, a brand-new hand at shipbuilding...
...Just take it easy." The doctor gave the crane operator a swig of whiskey, dulled him further with a hypodermic of morphine. Then operating with only his left hand through a hole cut in the side of the cab and working with his surgeon's lancet and a machinist's hacksaw, Dr. Long amputated John McCoy's right arm at the shoulder. Thereupon firemen hauled the man out of the cab, tied a rope around his waist, lowered him head first to an ambulance which rushed him to a hospital for possible recovery...
...about it was Dr. Charles Aubrey Pannet of University of London and St. Mary's Hospital, the surgeon who examined Bux's feet before and after the ordeal. But Dr. Pannet flatly refused to comment, said he would save his remarks for publication in the Lancet, British medical weekly...
...Chicago, Dentist Leonard S. Klein noticed that a female in his fish bowl of guppies was transparently pregnant and overdue. He lifted her out, pricked her with a lancet. Out drained 20 nearly invisible guppies. The 1½-in. mother survived what ichthyologists called the first Caesarean section of a guppy...
...original report, which they published in the Lancet, Drs. Maile & Scott stated that it requires six hours to digest a mixed meal of eggs, toast, cream and coffee. A supper of cold pheasant, potatoes, chutney, pudding, jelly, beer and coffee stayed in the stomach about 47 hours. But 3½to 4 hours usually suffice to digest the ordinary meal. A headache, an emotional upset or a high ratio of fatty foods delay digestion...