Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modified globin, one of the newest substances used in transfusions, was described by Dr. Max Maurice Strumia of Bryn Mawr, Pa. It is made from red blood cells, keeps well in salt solution, is so successful in preventing blood fluid from leaking into the tissues (as in wound shock) that, if globin were made along with plasma, each blood donation would go four times as far as at present...
...landed in a pear tree, a rather good shock absorber. But the trouble was I didn't filter on through to the ground; instead I dangled about three feet above ground unable to swing far enough to touch anything...
...prewar U.S. gunmakers, had a backlog of $30,000,000 in orders when war came. And stockholders remembered that in 1917 Colt had paid a fantastic $60 cash dividend, later tossing in a 100% stock dividend to boot. But in March 1944, Colt stockholders got another kind of shock. For the first time in 27 years, Colt paid no dividend. On April 20 came shock No. 2. Up to board chairman went Colt's ailing president, Samuel M. Stone, who had driven Colt with a tight rein for 22 years. To the presidency came Graham H. Anthony...
Deprived of his bitter social implications, the Ape bums and blasts his way through a rudderless melodrama. Deprived of his ferocious eloquence, thanks doubtless to censorship, he talks like a tough guy who is trying not to shock his grandmother. Deprived of his tragic ending, he becomes, in retrospect, a not very convincing sailor ashore. Unfortunately, his screen creators have tried to compensate for these deficiencies by making him funny...
...cases where shock is very great, the injection of blood plasma alone is insufficient, since patients who have suffered severe injuries need 50 per cent plasma and 50 per cent whole blood. Until now, the lack of suitable equipment has made this practically impossible...