Word: spined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stiffen venture capital's spine against this hazard, the White House announced a new policy. Treasury, Defense Advisory Commission and Federal Loan Agency all agreed that capital outlays for Defense may be written off the owner's books, in the tax returns, at 20% a year (far higher than normal depreciation rates in most manufacturing industries). By reducing their taxable profits on war goods, this depreciation rate will keep many manufacturers out of the higher brackets of an excess-profits...
...physiotherapy means anything to the layman, it is apt to mean quackery and cultism-high colonic irrigations, spine juggling, nudist colonies. Actually, physiotherapy is an ancient and honorable art which uses such natural methods as heat, massage and exercise to invigorate the body, relieve pain. Though most of its practitioners are laymen, physiotherapy is a special pet of the American Medical Association. Last week, for the umpteenth time, the Journal of the A. M. A. begged doctors to wrest this lucrative and valuable specialty from the hands of the quacks...
There will be no bunting in Philadelphia's Convention Hall. The opening song will be no jaunty, vote-inviting parody, but the spine-tingling Ballad for Americans: It will come again-our marching song will come again, Simple as a hit tune, deep as our valleys, High as our mountains, strong as the people who made...
...fanciful reconstruction called Xochi-pili-Macuilxochitl after the Aztec god of music, the dance, flowers, love-was the real stuff. But it really sounded like an Aztec jam session. Flutes and pipes shrilled and wailed, a trombone (subbing for the snail shell) neighed an angular melody, to the spine-tingling thump-and-throb of drums, gourds, rattles. Xochipili-Macuil-xochitl sounded almost as primitive as Stravinsky...
...another way. They give hypertonic (heavy) glucose injections to patients in coma or shock. The glucose, thicker than body fluids, sucks out fluid from the tissues through osmotic pressure. thus reduces tension in the brain. ¶ Also harmful, say Drs. Gross & Ehrlich. is the common practice of lumbar puncture (spine-tapping) to examine the spinal fluid soon after a head injury. During the first few hours after the accident, the body tries to restore the balance between blood and cerebro-spinal fluid. Withdrawal of fluid "might possibly interfere with this...