Word: slough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first successful one in which a whole lung was cut out at one stage, two other pioneers in this field deserve much praise for their courage and success. Rudolph Nissen, then of Berlin but now of New York, in 1931 caused the lung of a child to slough out by operating on her in two stages in such a way as deliberately to shut off the blood to the lung. In 1932 Cameron Haight of the University of Michigan . . . performed a similar operation on another child . . . Both patients recovered . . . The reason for the operation in my case was a cancer...
Both male & female babies slough off many different types of cells into the amnion ("bag of waters") in which they are carried. After the seventh month, a girl baby sloughs off distinctive cells like those from the genitalia of an adult woman. By puncturing the bag of waters late in pregnancy, draining off a little fluid, and staining the cells, the sex of 25 babies was foretold with accuracy at the University of Brussels' Laboratory for Experimental Gynecology...
...thought that $1.3 million for dredging the Detroit River would benefit no one but the Detroit Edison Co., and that $36.9 million to improve the Ouachita River in Arkansas and Louisiana was not justified. In all, he listed $840 million of projects from Prouts Neck, Me. to Westport Slough, Ore.-many of them not even requested by the Administration-which he thought could be lopped...
...fear." The greatest boom in history was over the crest, and U.S. business had begun the perilous, booby-trapped road back to what it hoped would be "normalcy." The journey was not unlike Christian's trek in Pilgrim's Progress. The wayfaring nation started in the Slough of Dispond, went through Vanity Fair, passed the lion-guarded House Beautiful, profited from the counselings of Prudence, stumbled on the Hill called Difficulty, defeated Apollyon, a fiend, saw through the hollow words of Mr. Worldly Wiseman, encountered the contradictory Works of the Law, viewed the Delectable Mountains, encountered the doubletalk...
...Slough of Dispond. The year began in an air of political unreality. The Administration gabbled of plans for new controls to fight an inflation that was already ebbing. With hard words for business, which was charged with failing to live up to its promise to lick inflation by production, President Truman talked of Government-financed steel plants, demanded $4 billion more in taxes and stand-by controls. Before long, he knew that he was wrong...