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Word: stream (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loads of variety. There were some quiet spells, but usually we began operating at midnight and on until 8 or 10 in the morning, then the nurses and I would take all the bloody operating stuff to a stream, wash it out, and Emily would re-sterilize it for use that night. I got four scratches, two on each foot, dropping boxes on myself while moving and then getting streptococcus sloughs from infected patients' blood and pus dropping onto my feet, and they took forever to heal. Yesterday was the first day I didn't have to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgeon in Burma | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...pretty nearly died that first day, it was so ghastly hot. Next day, and for three more days, we had to march down the middle of a stream. Sand got into our shoes and socks and my sores got four times as big as they had been. Then we had three days on rafts made of rotten bamboos. My bed was six inches under water. Then we crossed the Chindwin and started up and down some awfully steep hills, some 7,000 feet high. I had had malaria every couple of weeks since December and the day we reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgeon in Burma | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

Promptly a Pravda article called Shostakovich's music "un-Soviet, unwholesome, cheap, eccentric and leftist" (atonal). A few days after that, Pravda attacked his ballet, The Limpid Stream. Friends feared that Shostakovich's next composition might have to be called Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make. But Composer Shostakovich was not a revolutionist for nothing. He publicly agreed that Pravda knew more about music than he did. He withdrew his Fourth Symphony (it has never been performed) after one rehearsal. He announced that he would stake his musical future on a Fifth Symphony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shostakovich & the Guns | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

Cows and Pipe Organs. Fairchild shopped around and the burghers helped. Here was a plant wrapped in graveyard silence, there an empty garage. Artisans could be had for the asking. Soon many a converted machine shop began displaying the Fairchild emblem. Airplane parts in a trickle, then in a stream began flowing toward the main plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Hagerstown Gets Hot | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...open wounds is the bacillus which causes gas gangrene. Open wounds should be treated thus: 1) all glass, bullets, stones, shrapnel, etc. must be cut out of the wound; 2) all dead and bruised tissue-breeding grounds for the bacillus-must be snipped away so that the blood stream can get directly at the germs and destroy them; 3) sulfanilamide powder should be sprinkled on the raw surface, and the patient kept at rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Septic Antiseptic | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

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