Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with any idea of conserving our strength is to invite defeat. The first assertion is unhistorical; the second unpractical. We conducted all our wars until the last on the policy of profiting by our sea-moat and seapower to limit our liability . . . and had a sustained run of success in, and after, them that no other modern nation has known...
...Prepare for success and direct the child confidently. (Junior seemed about to drink...
...Harvard Crimson, under Blair Clark's supervision took its stand with one leg solidly behind the Allies: "The best chance of our remaining neutral is the success of Allied arms." But in the next breath the Crimson added: "Americans wishing to remain neutral must make a new resolve to stay out of this war at any price -Allies win or lose...
...last 20 years, surgery has explored every organ of the body. Many a surgeon, flushed with scientific and financial success, thinks of his profession as a game of skilled slashing and speedy patching. Greatly worried by this too-common, hardboiled attitude are Dr. Elliott C. Cutler, chief surgeon of Boston's famed Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and his associate, Dr. Robert Zollinger. To them surgery is not only a science but an art, a religion, and a means of self-expression. Last week they published their new folio-sized manual of surgery,* first book of its kind since...
...maximum surgical success, hundreds of delicate precautions must be observed. A surgeon should make incisions with "a deliberate sweep of the scalpel." but "the belly of the scalpel should be swept across the tissues, not pressed into them." Sutures should be of silk "so fine that it - breaks when such strain is put upon it as will cut through living tissue. . . . One-handed knots and rapidly thrown knots are unreliable. Each knot is of vital importance in the success of an operation." Fresh wounds should be sealed with silver-foil, for "silver has bactericidal qualities." A surgeon must know...