Word: occurence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first human subject so treated for barbiturate poisoning. Punching a hole through the muscle wall of his abdomen 2 in. below the navel, doctors inserted a plastic tube in his peritoneal cavity and hooked this up with a quart flask containing mineral salts in the same concentration as they occur in the blood, plus antibiotics to check infection. The solution drained into the peritoneal cavity. There it picked up some of the barbiturates by osmosis through the peritoneum. The doctors then drained the fluid, now mixed with barbiturates, back into the flask. They repeated the process with fresh fluid about...
Beer & Baccy. However this bit of fancy does not occur before Old Cock has duly delivered himself of a few well-rounded reflections on the "Socialist mob, the thieving upstarts," and stated his Weltanschauung: "Cutting the cackle, it's a bloody washout in which the baby is thrown out with the bathwater and devil take all. Talk about Rights. What Rights? Then I will tell you . . . the right of an Englishman true-born and free to get his beer and baccy, his Java, bread and scrape, plum-and-apple, cut off the joint and choice of two veg . . . good...
...Parmelee explained that Mongolism may occur in any family-that parents are not to blame. Studies indicate that injuries of unknown origin during prenatal life-most likely near the eighth week of pregnancy-may be the cause...
...effect. The forces in the economy are too powerful." Said the world's biggest banker. President S. Clark Beise of the Bank of America: "We will all carry on and everything will run in the same way. We shouldn't overplay any small health problem that may occur." Echoed Blyth & Co.'s President Charles R. Blyth: "No one's changing plans...
...disapproval from Mrs. Grundys all over the nation. In Parliament an outraged Laborite backbencher rose to demand assurances from the government that "breaches of the peace are treated by the police as breaches of the peace and not simply as acts of high spirits because they happen to occur among the rich and influential." The question, though it named no names, brought a prompt and unprecedented reply from Kensington Palace. The Duke of Kent, said a palace statement, was indeed at the parties referred to but was "in no way involved" in their fruitier moments...