Word: ringers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gastric Juice. Total loss of gastric juice causes death in five to eight days, unless Ringer's solution (sodium chloride, calcium chloride, potassium chloride, sodium bicarbonate and distilled water) is injected into the veins. Even so death is delayed at the most 76 days.?Chicago's Lester Reynold Dragstedt and James C. Ellis...
...Walter Ringer (alias Charley Ringer, Franz Rudis, Max Walter Ketter, Charles Long), 39, 5 ft. 6 in., heavy set, broad shouldered, for stealing U. S. mail upon the high seas aboard the S. S. Leviathan last year. A linguist, he conducts novelty shops, cafés, works as a seaman or carpenter. Reward...
...Moscow chemico-pharmacists, Theodore Andreiev and Alexei Alexandrovich Kuliabko, pumped a modified Ringer's solution* into the veins of a man dead 29 hours. After some hours the cadaver's heart began to beat feebly. The body developed a slight warmth. The throat gurgled. The eyelids fluttered. The reactions resembled the partial reviving of a drowned person. Unbearably horrified, the experimenters stopped their pumping. They let the corpse subside and go on to its normal course of decay...
...Ringer's solution (after Sidney Ringer, English physiologist, 1835-1910) resembles blood serum in composition. One formula contains sodium chloride, calcium chloride, potassium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, water...
...Marsters, Dartmouth interfraternity ping-pong champion, rates no golden key for activity on the college daily, but Editor Robert Rathbone Bottome said that, if necessary, he would appoint Marsters to his staff if the Crimson pingers ponged potently. The Crimson's men complained bitterly: "He's a ringer...