Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is American history in the broadest sense--cultural, scientific, and economic as well as political history, all brought into a unified and correlated whole. Third is its position in the field of education. The Plan seeks to bridge a number of academic departments, to break down the water-tight bulwarks separating the independent and specialized compartments into which the modern academic world has divided itself...
...earth, manure, intestines of many animals, rusty nails and tools. The germs usually enter a dirty wound (sometimes only a pinprick) and incubate for more than a week, producing a poison hundreds of times more virulent than strychnine. A victim of tetanus first complains of stiff neck, then tight jaws, in a mild case muscular spasms in the region of his wound. Sometimes his mouth becomes drawn in a sardonic grin, and finally he writhes in painful, uncontrollable muscular paroxysms, sometimes rocking on his head and heels. Spasms may be so severe that his stout abdominal muscle is ripped...
...Tight-lipped Imperial officials refused to tell reporters whether the Cavalier's, engines had carburetor heaters. Little better off than newsmen was the U. S. Civil Aeronautics Authority, which didn't know either. Under a reciprocal agreement, Imperial's planes are checked for airworthiness by Britain's Air Ministry at Bermuda. Pan American Airways planes, which ply the same route, are checked by CAA inspectors at Port Washington...
Facing him in the chair of the Commerce Committee was North Carolina's tight-mouthed Senator Josiah Bailey, whose long nose, for a long feud, Hopkins once tried to punch in the Mayflower Hotel lobby. Beating last summer's Purge had made Senator Bailey feel no more kindly toward one of its prime instigators. Chairman Bailey turned him over for questioning to Michigan's beetling Vandenberg, spokesman for the Republicans. Mr. Vandenberg, with an elaborate air of ironic courtesy, asked Mr. Hopkins what business experience had qualified him to fulfill such constitutional duties as, for example, running...
Beer, champagne, tight abdominal belts, cotton earplugs soaked in a cocaine substitute, small doses of nitroglycerin, sodium nitrite, bromides, are all things that are recommended by travelers for seasickness...