Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern Treatment. Cholera, an infection of the digestive tract, kills chiefly by removing water from the body. The blood gets too thick to circulate, and death comes from "shock." Modern treatment knocks off the vibrios (comma-shaped, whiskery bacteria) with sulfa drugs, and dilutes the thickening blood with saline solution or serum. The vaccine has worked well. No one receiving two injections (cost: 3?) has yet got the disease; only one who has had a single shot has come down with...
...Half-Centaur. "... A polar cold prevailed, and the air was thick with fog of the texture of a polar bear's pelt. Out of these unfathomable, and therefore vast, spaces of frozen fur, of white and yellow, there showed occasionally a horse's teeth or glaring eyes, or a frostbitten or port-nipped military face, conjured up out of the gloom and darkness, like a materialization at a seance. . . . Men shouted, sergeants commanded; bugles every now and then indulged in a brazen, idiot bray...
Everybody had ideas. Ideas were so thick that Luckman's secretary, Miss Iona Thornton, said, "It was like being knee-deep in alligators. You never knew when one might reach out and bite...
Fullback seems well padded with experience, Mel Friedman saw considerable action last year while Sam Adams was the starting Tufts fullback. John Harris and Bob Forsyth, a lacrosse player last spring, are also in the thick of the fray...
Offered a friendly hand in Rome: Pius XII. But the air was so thick with ecclesiastical greetings when a camera clicked that the occasion came out bearing a remarkable resemblance to an unrehearsed square dance...