Word: two
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last week the gadget, called the oxyhemograph, had been used on 300 patients; 110 were heart cases, including 30 "blue babies." Two of the patients owe their lives to the oxyhemograph. One blue baby was saved by quick administration of oxygen when the chart showed a sudden dangerous lowering of blood oxygen. The other patient was having an operation on his knee when he swallowed his tongue and started to choke. The chart gave warning in time. The machine has proved especially useful in long operations and in all operations on the heart. It can tell the surgeon, even before...
...almost two weeks, Chicago had been breaking out in a rash of cryptic signs: "KOVD." The letters were stenciled in red on Loop sidewalks. They flowered 10,000 feet overhead in sky writing and billboards showed them painted on a giant boxing glove. The city's Health Department was getting a message to Chicagoans: KNOCK OUT VENEREAL DISEASE...
Some 45 centuries ago an Egyptian gentleman with two proud titles, Master of the Largesses of the House of Life and Director of the Black Vase, died and was buried. Like other aristocrats of his time, the Master had been a forward-looking sort. It had struck him or his heirs that vandals might break into his tomb some day, and disturb his rest by injuring the head of his mummy. Just in case, a substitute head, a stone portrait of himself, was carved and placed in his tomb as a reserve resting place for his spirit...
Meryon's etchings shared top honors in the show with Gallatin's two other favorite print-makers: Rembrandt and Albrecht Durer...
...time went on, Meryon saw stranger things. His later cityscapes were ruined, collectors thought, by the introduction of monstrous birds and whales wallowing overhead. After he had printed etchings of two perpendicular boxes in which a man and a woman were padlocked to sleep standing up, and made a written attack on ordinary beds ("A piece of furniture that serves the purpose of laziness and lust"), Meryon was hustled off to a madhouse. There, at 46, he died...