Word: probe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They gave him a local anesthetic, cut open the arteries high on each leg, broke up the blood clot with a special probe, then sucked out the pieces with a long, slender tube. As soon as his blood vessels were stitched up, the patient was given transfusions and large injections of heparin, a liver extract which prevents clotting. Immediately after the operation, said Drs. Ravdin and Wood, "the color and temperature of the right leg returned to normal." His left leg recovered more slowly. For almost two weeks after the operation, heparin was constantly dripped into his veins...
...little nonsense now and then is relished by the best of men," said Senator Tobey at one of the early hearings in the Senate probe of the motion picture industry. At the time, the Senator's words seemed to offer the best explanation of what went on when Nye, Clark, Brooks, and company ran head-on into Wendell Willkie and his cotcric of assorted Hollywood executives. The whole show promised to set off more fireworks then a double-feature movie with a Mickey Mouse, newsreel, and Bank Night thrown...
After toying with the idea for years, Federal Reserve Board officials last week started a why-is-it probe to try to find the reason for this unexplained growth of cash in use. Meanwhile, private bankers made some guesses: 1) with income rising many a U.S. citizen is stuffing excess cash into mattresses, caching it in backyards, carrying it on the hip; 2) foreigners have been hoarding big bills ($50 and up); 3) the relative use of checking accounts has declined because of service charges...
...sensible citizen in any country wants to go to war at any time-which the question dodged. There is a further difference between being willing to go to war "to help Britain" and to save the U.S. from grave danger. Careless questions certainly could not probe the present complex U.S. state of mind...
...week's end the convention created a new national commission proposed by President DuShane, gave it $20,000 to defend the schools. Some of its purposes: to investigate attacks on schools, textbooks and teachers, probe education's enemies, investigate and expose subversive teachers. The convention also...