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Word: offing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Radioactive elements in blood studied as the initiating source of the heart beats.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Medical Year | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Fetal livers proved to be more powerful than the livers of older animals in stimulating the formation of blood in pernicious anemia.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Medical Year | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Twice as big as a horse should be the size of Margaret F. Maclntyre, 23, physiology assistant at Goucher College (Baltimore) if only her rate of breathing were considered. The bigger an animal, the slower it breathes. A rat respires 100 to 200 times a minute, a cat 20 to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Slow Breather | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

She is a healthy young woman, 5 ft. i in. tall, 120 lbs. in weight At athletics she does not lose her breath as quickly as do other girls. She can hold a singing note amazingly long. Physiologically her body gets all the air it needs because, breathing more slowly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Slow Breather | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

* A newborn baby breathes 62 times a minute, the rate of a grown rabbit.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Slow Breather | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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