Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scooperoo" tale of the grand larceny of a valuable Shakespeare folio and an international search of private detectives appearing in last night's Record failed to rouse more than a perfunctory denial from Widener authorities...
...second wireless informed Captain Chelton of the warning, instructed him to search every cranny for possible time-bombs, not to worry the passengers by telling them, and finally, since crazy though it was, the warning was too serious to dismiss altogether, he was to expect "a Coast Guard vessel and several Navy ships" which would accompany the Iroquois to an unspecified American port...
...charged that last Wednesday, Committee investigators raided his office and "left it a shambles." They had no search warrant, and relied on "physical force" in carrying out their program, he asserted in a letter to Murphy
During the late war as well as in the present one, it appears to be the privilege of the war craft of belligerent nations to stop and search (under threat of fire) the vessels of neutral countries. This privilege extends to the examination of the mails, the identity of crew and passengers as well as cargo. Such "highjacking" takes place upon the high seas and, I understand, even in neutral waters where possible...
...Handling of tissues with fingers cannot be as facile, gentle or safe as handling with properly designed, delicate instruments." A surgeon should spend his life in "a constant search for better instruments until he emerges finally as an artist, not an artisan." Blood transfusion is "essential in certain disorders, and most valuable in preparing the patient for a major ordeal; but its use following a surgical performance is at least suggestive that a more careful technique would have made this unnecessary...