Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every continent (with the possible exception oi Australia) are soaked with petroleum, Wrote Harvard's Professor Kirtley F Mather in Science: there is "no chance' that the U.S., which has produced two-thirds of the world's oil, has any monopoly of it. Wrote Wallace E. Pratt, a director of Standard Oil of New Jersey: finding oil requires a "delicate synchronization of science, machinery, and the human equation" that is peculiarly American. His new book, Oil in the Earth (University of Kansas Press; $1), is a yawp in praise of the U.S. "wildcatter...
Entries in the 880 are all pretty equal. Max Pincus and Henry Mason have good records behind them on the Freshman team this spring and Herby Pratt is considered by some as one of the top new Freshman runners. Miler Archie Lyon took second in the Yale meet this spring and is going to run in the mile event at Dedham...
Philip McVey, Wichita, Kans., James A. Norton, Dyersburg, Tenn., Samuel A. Pratt, Manchester, Conn., Henry J. Rethorst, Piedmont, Calif., William V. Roth, Jr., Helena, Monf., James A. Shelley, Lincoln, Nebr., A. Anthes Smith, Fort Madison, la., Glen G. Smith, Indianapolis, Ind., Jay L. Smith, Chicago...
...torn artery and a pulsating fountain of blood usually meant one thing to Army surgeons in World War I-amputation. In World War II, it may not mean any such thing. In the American Journal of Surgery last week, Surgeon Gerald Hillary Pratt published instructions on the "neglected" art of sewing arteries...
When a large piece of artery has been torn away, a nearby vein can be tied off and a piece cut out for a patch. (Smaller, "collateral veins" can always take up the circulation of the large ones.) Even when it is impossible to repair an artery, Dr. Pratt continued, amputation is still not inevitable, for, like a vein, an artery can be ligated (tied off from circulation). There is small danger of gangrene if the accompanying vein is also ligated...