Word: sacs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five years ago Mrs. Bramy. wife of a dress peddler, mother of four, went to Dr. Brown, complaining of pain in her chest. He decided that a general infection had inflamed the thin sac called the pericardium which contains the heart and caused it to adhere to Mrs. Bramy's breast bone. Surgeon Brown excised a section of the woman's sternum and ribs together with enough rib gristle to enable him to reach into her chest and free the pericardium from its adhesions. At the same time he removed a tiny bit of pericardial tissue...
...Land Bank officials in Omaha last week reported farm land prices in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming up as much as 33% from last year. More than 50% of buyers are bona fide settlers. A farm near Omaha lately sold for $155 per acre, a half-section in Sac County, Iowa for $135 per acre. A northern Iowan reported an offer of $110 per acre for land he lately bought...
...gall bladder is a slender, pear-shaped sac attached to the under side of the liver. Its purpose is to receive, concentrate and store the bile which the liver produces and, after a meal containing bacon, cream or other fats, to squirt some of its supply into the intestines. Typhoid fever germs occasionally slip into the gall bladder and tenaciously resist all medical efforts to dislodge them. They make a chronic typhoid carrier of the person whose gall bladder they infest...
...execution of your own class-brothers-the Wh Guardists-rats that got what they deserve, justice, proletarian justice. Of course, couldn't be expected to understand; your begeois ''culture" makes you a champion of " democracy" with its courts, "free," "open" ; jury trials with its McXamaras, Mooneys, Sac and Vanzettis and its Scottsboros (chosen "bitrarily") in comparison to its Insulls. T is your justice...
...that bites Claudette Colbert in this DeMille production is a real one. Studio officials expressed surprise when the director deviated so far from realism as to permit the extraction of its poison sac before it struck...