Word: sink
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Drunks swept up off the streets by police and carted to hospitals usually need sleep more than anything else, hence get little active treatment. But an occasional alcoholic may be so thoroughly saturated that he will sink from deep coma into paralysis and death. Taking an interest in such deplorable guzzlers, last year two internes at Boston's City Hospital, Drs. Leon J. Robinson and Sydney Selesnick, began experimenting on specimens in their hospital's alcoholic ward. Their aim was to develop a gas which would oxidize alcohol in the blood, help throw it off in the breath...
...Jones was not particularly elated by New York Central's thumping repayment. Fact was, he was quite willing to sink more RFC money in New York Central provided the road's bankers accepted one of his proposals. In addition to its RFC debt New York Central owes its bankers $65,000,000, payable on demand. New York Central notes held by Mr. Jones's RFC are due on fixed dates, hence are technically inferior to the bank loans. Mr. Jones wanted equality. One way to obtain it, suggested Mr. Jones, was to fund the road...
Since Dr. Maynadier's retirement, the study of the short story has been allowed to lapse into comparative obscurity. Occasionally dragged forth from its corner by some composition course, it is held up in the burning light of study for a week or two and then allowed to sink back into the gloom to be forgotten. Like Prohibition, the study of the short story will soon be a thing of the past...
...Alnico magnet was originally a Japanese find, that the little lamp was a Dutch invention, that GE was puttering with both under license. Good cheer returned, however, when the visitors came upon a garbage-grinder which may revolutionize "kitchen waste" disposal by chopping it fine, flushing it down the sink drain (TIME, Sept. 9). With crows of delight the tycoons stopped, played with this gadget...
...dark horse bolstered by a sudden increase in able personnel, the Adams House grid team went forth with confidence yesterday to score in the first period and sink the hopeful Lowellmen under a 7-0 score...