Word: stomachly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never walk down there," the experienced bottom-saunterer continued. "I shove myself around on my stomach in ever widening circles--my technique would shame the most adroit pollywog. The clouds of mud I stir up make using a light about as useful as trying to shine it through a thick London fog. You can't see anything and if you're not careful to keep your suit full of air, you will squash up into your helmet...
...heart itself does not die beyond recall until Death has held it ten to 20 minutes Other way stations in the schedule ot Death according to Dr. Hyman: skeletal muscle two to four hours; stomach and intestines, six to ten hours; cartilage, ten to 24 hours; bone, 24 to 72 hours; skin (including sweat glands, hair follicles and nails), several days...
...found that exile was not the pinnacle of glory he had suggested it might be. One after another they quarreled, struck attitudes, were glad to go, until only two trusted followers were left. After five years of it even they, though they shed tears, sighed with relief when a stomach ulcer at last gave their master eternity, themselves and their jailers release...
Aside from technical weaknesses, the picture still presents some features that are a little hard to stomach. When Cary Grant, who plays the blinded flier, stutters a little over his first attempts to walk under the guidance of a dog and makes such remarks as "I've never handled controls like these before," or "Hey, let me learn to fly this ship!", his painful metaphors can be passed off as the result of embarrassment. But when Myrna Loy describes herself as a lowwing single-motored monoplane with a fair wingspread and "streamlined, so they tell me!", the whole idea...
Then Harvard's Dr. William Bosworth Castle discovered why liver helped anemics. Pernicious anemia, he showed, is a deficiency disease in a category with diabetes and myxedema. In pernicious anemia the stomach fails to secrete a certain substance which as yet has not been isolated. Ordinarily that stomach secretion mixes with food, especially meats, and produces a second, unidentified substance in the intestines. There the second unknown is absorbed and gets to the arm and leg bones where it stimulates the production of red blood cells...