Word: liquidating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amniotic fluid is a liquid which a mother secretes in her womb while she is bearing her baby...
...baby floats in that liquid until it is born. Just before birth, the "bag of water" bursts, and the fluid cascades forth...
...that experience had taught him, asphyxiated a fourth mongrel, revived it a half-hour after breathing had stopped, five minutes after its heart was stilled. Last week Dog No. 4 was rolling in delirium. But its blood pressure was rising, its pulse was nearly normal, and it was swallowing liquid food. Dr. Cornish reported that Dog No. 4's first week was vastly more encouraging than Dog No. 3's had been...
After an hour of prayers the people beheld the dark mass grow soft, turn red, increase in volume, bubble into a liquid. "Il miracolo e fatto!" cried the officiant. ''The miracle is made!" The choir sang a Te Deum. The worshippers scrambled up to the altar rail to kiss the reliquary. Outside sounded a nine-gun salute...
Woodwork, carpets, draperies, perhaps paint stores, perhaps liquid brass polish. Some stewards, in violation of the law, used a highly inflammable brass polish, even up on the bridge where officers could and should have detected...