Word: sacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...medical service as a standard University utility, the meeting seemed to agree that the activities center could do more to cure psychological troubles. After a proposal to merge the music center with the student activities, it was decided to appoint a committee, a great body of opinion then favoring SAC...
What the Council has done is to set up in effect a committee of undergraduate sponsors for a Student Activities Center, theoretically encompassing representatives of all the thirty-eight groups which would receive new leases on life through an SAC. The only drawback has been in the absence of all but a half-dozen of the "interested" parties. Notwithstanding this gap in representation, the committee's first meeting determined to send each organization a detailed questionnaire requesting data on current and pre-war membership, present meeting facilities, and what it would need in a new Student Activities Center. Most important...
Hospital surgeons cut through George's fourth and fifth ribs and gingerly pulled out the pencil. It had been driven in four inches, penetrating the pericardium (outer sac of the heart). George's coolness, they allowed, had certainly saved his life. What George wanted to know was: Could he pitch for the baseball team, come spring? Doctors thought he probably could...
...Edward Abbott, assisted by Dr. Charles Mount, made a six-inch midline incision in the abdomen. The patient bled profusely (she got almost eight pints of blood in transfusions). The doctors cut the fetal sac, seized the infant, pulled out a wailing baby girl. Weight: 6 lbs. 6 oz. Condition of mother & daughter at week's end: excellent...
...operated, found a calcium shell an eighth of an inch thick enclosing the heart sac. This heart shell had to be cracked apart with forceps. Apparently the result of internal bleeding caused by an old baseball blow under the heart (calcium deposits are often found in scar tissue), the casing had prevented the heart muscle from growing, had restricted blood circulation. By starving body tissues, it had stopped the boy's growth...