Word: sacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to SAC, top contenders are an international exchange scholarship fund, devoted to the cause of world peace; a psychological inspection of University students, expanding upon the Grant Study pattern: and a supplementing of present commemorative embellishments at Memorial Chapel itself, with an eye to continuity in marking the sacrifices of Harvard men in all wars. One such recommended gesture is the installation of new chimes...
...Sac and Fox Indian Reservation at Tama, Iowa, Charlie Davenport took a close look at the squaw corn,† noted that its husks were loose and thin, predicted that the U.S. would have a long Indian summer and that real winter would probably not set in until after Christmas...
Obstetricians had an explanation for the rare occurrence. An infant who begins to breathe in the womb is in danger of drowning in amniotic fluid. But when the fetal sac breaks and the fluid flows out, the unborn child can get a few lungsful of the air entering the womb through the birth passage. The rhythm of the laboring mother's contracting uterus acts as an artificial respirator...
...specialists and choosy about what they invade. Some thrive only in plants, some only in certain animals, some only in man, some only in certain tissues; e.g., the influenza virus in man can exist only in the lining of the breathing apparatus (nose, throat, lungs, etc.) or the eye sac...
...India. U.S. mission members found that these young Nepalese have clear ideas about what they want to do, are keen to modernize Nepal, but do not want to hurry. Their plan now is to sell a modest amount of jute, linseed, probably drugs and some musk (the perfume-producing sac of the musk deer). In that way, they would create a small dollar balance with which to buy U.S. machinery and hire U.S. technicians. Nepal's younger generals asked U.S. help in making economic surveys, inspecting possible sites for hydroelectric power, furnishing some machinery for mills in the Nepal...