Word: spills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Raab recovered from his experiment. The symptoms he had experienced gave him added evidence for a new theory of angina pectoris: that the bad actors in angina are the adrenal glands. The adrenals, which cap each kidney, are "second-wind" glands, spill forth energy-producing juices in time of stress. When certain sensitive individuals overwork, or get an emotional shock, their adrenals speed up to feverish pitch. The excess adrenalin tightens the arteries leading from lungs to heart, deprives the heart of oxygen just when it is most needed. Such temporary smothering. Dr. Raab believes, produces the stabbing spasms...
...Minister of Marine, Air Minister. His chief hold on the King is a little secret between them: the King, who is always hard up, signed a decree paying himself his salary for the years of his exile, and the King knows that if Little John gets mad he will spill the story to the country...
...that Procter & Gamble dislikes rhyming entries. Most National Contesters submit many entries to each contest through friends all over the country, give 10% of their winnings to the pal in whose territory and name the contest is won. Wise contestants usually send their entries in rather cheap envelopes, sometimes spill a bit of Crisco on the sheet to make the entry look homemade...
...Senate held public hearings on the bill. For five days, nearly 60 businessmen were hustled in & out of the committee room, managed to spill more than 200,000 words of criticism. From their objections the Senators concluded that the average-earnings base of computation should be liberalized. Since the liberalization cut the probable yield this year from $225,000,000 (House version) to about $115,000,000, they raised it to $400,000,000 by the simple expedient of upping the normal corporate income-tax rate by 3.1%. During this rewriting, the Treasury took a belatedly renewed interest. Into...
...Daily News. He is the kind of newspaperman who once said of a politician who threatened him with physical violence: "If nothing less than a few buckets of blood from the veins of the editor of the Daily News will quench your thirst for human gore . . . come on and spill it-if you can. Being the party threatened, the editor is entitled to choice of weapons. [The threatener] may arm himself with cowdung and shingles at the respectful distance of 40 paces, standing with his face to the wind in order that spectators may not be offended by his polecat...