Word: pump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Friedrich has developed both a defense and a masterly vindication of the democratic idea as a regime for civilized man. In the holocaust, his words are calculated to pump new life into a fighting democracy. In the days to come they may well serve as the basis for a happier world...
...Professor Henderson (with his assistant, Howard Haggard) invented a gas mask, but his greatest scientific work is his research on respiration. Physiologists long believed that asphyxiation was caused by lack of oxygen plus an accumulation of "poisonous" carbon dioxide in the body. The old method of resuscitation was to pump pure oxygen into lungs. But this method was seldom successful. Professor Henderson proved that carbon dioxide in small amounts is really an essential breathing stimulant, introduced an O 2 -CO 2 mixture which is used today in all hospitals, saves an estimated 25,000 newborn babies every year...
...Enjoying Two Dinners, or Invention of the Stomach Pump, which shows a doctor perched on a chair, fountaining the bilge from an overstuffed gourmand with a four-ft. contraption resembling a tire pump. Others wait their turn. Cries one: "Be quick Dr. there is another glorious Dinner...
...deferred corporation profits in excess of 3%. Among other proposals are plans to give a certain amount of compensating income-tax deductions to those who buy defense bonds, and simply to impose heavier social-security taxes. All have the same general object: to hold down wartime inflation-and to pump the spending power back when a post-war depression starts...
...beat of a healthy heart is lūbb-dūpp: a hollow boom as the ventricles contract to pump blood, followed by the soft snap of the closing of valves to the aorta and lungs. Weak, doubled, out-of-step or extra sounds mean trouble...