Word: stream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mosquitoes carry the protozoa on their stomach linings and in their salivary glands. While in the mosquito the protozoa are in the sexual phase of their cycle; man's blood stream is the home of the asexual phases. In an active case of malaria a patient's blood teems with asexual forms which multiply in the red blood cells, burst out bringing poisons with them. A few sexual forms of protozoa are produced in the human body, but they cannot multiply sexually unless a mosquito carries them off, thus completing the cycle...
...Quinine, the old standby, is now available only from the not-very-large stocks which were in the U.S. when Japan invaded the East Indies. It acts by destroying the asexual forms of all kinds of plasmodia in the human blood stream-the forms which produce the shivering, sweating and fever. Quinine also destroys the sexual forms of all but P. falciparum, which means that even after he is "cured" by quinine a patient with malignant tertian malaria can give the protozoa to any suitable mosquito...
...temperature of around 800-975° F. In scant seconds the oil is cracked and the mixture-vapors, gases and carbon-coated catalyst-moves up through cyclone separators where the powder is dropped into a spent catalyst chamber. From there it flows into a regeneration chamber where a stream of air burns off the carbon at a temperature of 1,000-1,150° F. The powder, still moving, is cleaned of remaining gases in more cyclone separators and an electrostatic (Cottrell) precipitator, goes next to a storage chamber (where it is kept turbulent by a stream of air), thence...
...much like real battle as live bullets and dynamite could make it. They had absorbed a good half of the shocks that unsettle even well-trained soldiers in their first few days of actual battle: racket and din of their own weapons, the heart-stopping confusion of a stream-crossing under fire, the never-ending struggle with barbed wire and booby traps...
...crossing was made after two trainees had swum the icy, 100-ft. stream carrying a pioneer towline. After landing they pulled across the rope bridge, tied it to trees. Then others of their company crept across while machine guns, bombs and mines simulated battle conditions...