Word: livered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nurmi like the After, of the patent-medicine advertisements. While he ran, they sat voiceless, staring at a Nurmi whose legs churned up and down, whose shoulders rolled, whose chest heaved-one who unmistakably resembled that unhappy journeyman of the piles, hookworm, gallstones, liver complaint, kidney trouble, Bright's disease, lost manhood-poor Before. They saw him, with a desperate display of iron willpower, set a pace that cost him anguish and troubled not at all Runner Helffrich, who loped behind until, in the last hundred yards, he sprinted, broke the tape, gave Nurmi the first defeat...
...Louis A. Coolidge, 64, prominent Republican, onetime (1888-91) private Secretary to Henry Cabot Lodge, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1908-09), President of the Coolidge Family Association (1920- 23), contributor of an article on the Republican party to the Encyclopedia Americana; in Milton, Mass., of sclerosis of the liver...
Consider the cod. Although his family is only second on the platter, he is perhaps the most valuable. Even his liver, when pressed under heat, exudes oil of great medicinal worth. And his tongue is a Parisian delicacy. Cod?a big creature?is partial to olive-green covering and is distinguished by a subtle beard at the tip of the lower jaw. The cod catch on the Newfoundland coast has not been seriously diminished...
...MacDonald had reported that he had made an extract of the liver, injected it in the veins of 33 patients suffering from high blood pressure, succeeded in lowering the pressures of their systolic blood (pressure as the heart contracts on its out-pumping stroke) from an average of 204 mm. to 142 mm. The diastolic (heart expansion or intake stroke) pressures had come down from an average...
...Bromsulphalein," a dye, to test the liver's action.?Dr. E. C. White, Johns Hopkins University...