Word: pint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called for a blood donor, drew a pint of carefully analyzed Rh negative blood and replaced part of the plasma with a salt solution to reduce the danger of clotting. Then he wheeled the infant into the operating room. He thrust a hollow needle into a vein in its left ankle, began to drip in the donor's blood. When he had dripped in 100 cc, a safe margin, he nicked the radial artery in the baby's right wrist, attached a tube, let the baby's blood drain out. To keep it flowing freely, he injected...
...M.I.T. delegation, the work of Doug Watson, pint-sized guard, was outstanding. Watson did an excelelnt job handling Mariaschin, and accounted for ten points of his own on offense. For the Varsity, Leo Page was top man with fifteen points, scored mostly in close. Page caged more than sixty percent of his shots...
...Bright-eyed, pint-sized K. C. Wu has not made Shanghai into a model city, but as its tireless mayor he has quashed the rice black market, raised coolie living standards and, by a combination of cajoling, arguing and policing, kept labor troubles at a minimum. His Confucius-like warning to labor and capital: "When hen is dead, no eggs will come." Called "The Mandarin Mayor" by some resentful employers and union men, K. C. Wu has won the support of foreigners, one of whom recently said: "If China had more K. C. Wus, I'd know the Chinese...
...hanging behind his closet door, came up with a knitted crimson affair, and carefully knotted it between button-down collars. "Mustn't forget the other thing either," he said to no one in particular, and reaching tenderly into the towel and sheet drawer, he came up triumphantly with a pint of whiskey. He eased this into the left hand pocket of the coat with the mousy fur collar. "All set," said...
...three months, pint-sized Ben Hogan had become Mr. Golf by picking up where greying, golfed-out Byron Nelson left off (TIME, Sept. 2). A good many pros are convinced that Hogan is now better than, Nelson in all departments, and at 34 he is getting cooler and tougher...