Word: stream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near the top of that hill we found a little hovel roofed by dripping banana leaves. Into this squalid hole two Chinese had crawled to die. One had already done so. I filled the dying man's rusty tin with water from a stream. He thanked me and fumbling feebly in his clothes offered me a battered cigaret. I did not accept...
...Sert and his colleagues do not propose to leave the city to its apparently inevitable fate. Instead of dispersing the city or making it smaller, they would quicken its blood stream by means of express highways; give it air to breathe by surrounding each business and industrial district with a green belt; make it self-contained by providing facilities for recreation and fuller living within the city itself...
...Suddenly a few scattered shots were fired from across the river. The Japs were trying to feel out our positions. Then, across the river from us a huge, dark, bobbing mass that looked like a herd of cattle scurried down into the stream. The Japs were starting to cross...
...wounded soldier is not his wound itself but the triple threat of shock, infection and delay-each of which once killed more men than flying bits of metal. In Russia, as elsewhere, plasma transfusions have reduced effects of shock, which is essentially a disorder of the blood stream (the body tissues seem to absorb the blood's natural plasma). Sulfa drugs and tetanus serum have reduced danger of infections. In use of antitoxin for gas gangrene-the bacterial infection that causes a wound to froth-Russia claims to be well ahead of other nations. Said Dr. Hugh Cabot, famed...
...years that followed truly brought glory to Mem Hall. Those were the times when she fed one thousand students daily under the vaulted arches of her nave. Hardly a meal passed without some outburst of excitement. Bloody fights among the colored waiters, Class wars, and demonstrations against the constant stream of sightseers who thronged the galleries to "watch the animals eat" served to hallow the bust-lined walls. Many were the wild tales that passed about of stray dogs which disappeared into her kitchens never again to see the light...