Word: redcross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bernard's nerve was famous. While still at Oxford, he inhaled carbon monoxide to test its effect on the body and made notes of his sensations (he found them unpleasant). Once he climbed down a manhole in London's Redcross Street to check on gas that had caused a workman's death. When he accidentally swallowed a culture of meningitis germs in a hospital laboratory, he reported: "I just carried...
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