Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sunburn & Archeology. Despite Mexico City's thin air and his back-breaking schedule, the President seemed to enjoy his furlough from Washington immensely. He returned the "Vivas!" of street crowds, shook hands untiringly at dinners and parties, slept well under a robe of vicuna pelts at the embassy, got up as early as usual. On his last day he went sightseeing. In the morning he took a 2½-hour jaunt in the Sacred Cow, peered down from 13,000 feet at smoking Paricutin volcano. After that, reddening in the sun, he drove 30 miles to view the archeological...
...bottles" are tubes of paper-thin, transparent plastic (cost: half a cent each). They are packaged as a roll of sterile tubing, sealed at intervals. Mother snips off a piece of tubing with sterile scissors, fills it, fits a sterilized nylon crown and rubber nipple over the open end, and squeezes out the air. The baby feeds with little effort: the milk flows easily. Nurse Allen thinks it is "the nearest approach to breast feeding...
...pints of blood and plasma in some cases) and big liquid feedings by injection, before & after the operation. Most of the functions of the stomach, pancreas and some other organs, Brunschwig points out, can be performed by substitutes: a section of intestine takes the place of the stomach, a thin slice of pancreas left in the body, or injections, can supply the body's insulin needs...
Presented by Council President Richard G. Axt '46, who was ushered into the thin, balding operator's sanctum by a new addition to the staff, the resolution stated...
...their people. . . . They felt that it was such 'a little thing' to get excited about-first free textbooks, then free bus transportation, for parochial schools at public expense. They were blind to the strategy of the Roman Church in using these apparently insignificant matters as the thin edge of the wedge which would ultimately crack open the Constitution...