Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, tourist travel to Prague picked up magically overnight. Tourists wolfed tasty Prager ham and downed it with Pilsner beer, convinced that they were safe so long as The Man With the Wrinkled Brow continues his studies...
...continuous artificial respiration. This month's issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal cites the case of a young lineman who was shocked by 26,000 volts, received immediate treatment by trained fellow-workmen, and after eight hours of unconsciousness began to breathe normally. "The only really safe plan," said the Journal, "is to continue efforts until rigor mortis...
...Austrian family named Wurschinger. In 1927, Alfred Wurschinger, an importer, brought the relic to the U. S., was offered $65,000 for it when news of it got into the press. Unwilling to sell, Owner Wurschinger insured the fragment for $100,000, put it in a safe deposit vault. Last week, unable to shoulder the expense and worry any longer, Mr. Wurschinger announced he would give the holy relic to any church, religious order or museum which would undertake to expose it to reverent eyes during future centuries. At week's end, Mr. Wurschinger's agent had received...
...fore and aft. A heavy jolt swings it forward into its lock, starts the set sending its mechanical cry for help. Operated by storage batteries, the small transmitter repeats its call steadily for two or three days, is audible to radio direction finders in searching rescue planes. If a safe but bumpy landing should put the signal into operation, a red light on his instrument board warns a pilot to release the pendulum switch...
Said Dr. Brockway, who has scientifically pulled more legs than any other physician in the world: "I have no hesitancy in stating that in the hands of competent men this operation is safe and practical when the lengthening is done below the knee." Lengthening of the thigh is more difficult because the muscles are tougher and resist stretching, and the position of the nerves makes any slight infection dangerous...