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Word: leaked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...electric knife cuts through the bowel it shrivels the severed ends, leaving them looking like the puckered ends of sausages. Thus no infectious intestinal material can leak into the peritoneum. After Dr. Whitaker removes the diseased segment of the bowel, he brings the healthy ends together and darns them in such manner that the burnt tissue lies within the passageway of the bowel. In 24 hours the burnt tissue sloughs off and passes away. The bowel no longer is obstructed, and in three weeks the patient is as well as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Electric Knife | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

...fear of infection after an abdominal operation. When he goes after an appendix, a ruptured spleen, a gall bladder, a twisted or telescoped bowel or a cancered stomach, he never knows at what moment the sewage system of the human body may, for all his skill, spring a leak, with disastrous results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Peritonitis Preventives | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...Russia have been carrying on "friendly negotiations" for the purchase of Moscow's share in the Chinese Eastern by Tokyo acting for Manchukuo. Bids and offers have been jealously guarded as State secrets, but last week each side accused the other of bad faith in letting the figures leak out. Russia first asked $188,000,000, it ap peared, Japan offering $15,000,000. The haggling continued until only $12,000,000 divided Japan's last bid of $36,000,000 from Russia's last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHUKUO: Inference oj Battle? | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...rest disappeared in trying to keep his fantastic holding companies from tumbling. He had wrecked his own empire. April 10, 1932 was his Waterloo. He and Sam Jr. conferred with the bankers at the exclusive Chicago Club. They did not dare meet elsewhere for fear the dreadful news would leak out. At that meeting a receivership was agreed upon. Samuel Insull, Charles A. McCulloch and Edward N. Hurley (now deceased) were to become the three receivers of the downfallen domain. Less than a month later Mr. McCulloch went to Samuel Insull and told him that his brother Martin would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Old Man Comes Home | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

...January the short position in seven leading air stocks increased from 4,000 to 44.000 shares. With that suspicious fact in view, Republican members of the Senate committee insisted that Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora begin an independent investigation to learn through what, if any, member of the Democratic Administration a leak might have sprung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Short Sales | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

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