Word: vein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...introduced into the blood stream to replace such natural protection had to be a stable emulsion. The Philadelphia men achieved that by mixing water, fat and 5% sugar under intense heat. An injection of this into a patient's vein or under his skin "blots up" toxins produced by microorganisms. Said Dr. Boericke: "The longest time it takes the fluid to work is twelve hours. In pneumonia cases we have noted improvements within a minute after injection...
...Morris Marcus took a hand. He rubbed the woman's eyelids, tickled her behind the ears. That caused her to twitch, to murmur: "Don't, Harry [the dead man], don't." But Mrs. Love did not wake up and doctors continued to nourish her through a vein with a solution of salt and sugar...
...Among U. S. journalists, no more facile penman exists than The New Yorker's famed E. (for Elwyn) B. (for Brooks) White. Grave, smallish Writer White, whose devotees consider him the nation's ablest humorist, is generally content to muse on minor human foibles. In semi-serious vein he perennially campaigns against arsenic apple spray. He is a friend-but not, as reported by bumbling Alexander Woollcott, the founder-of the Enemies of Modern Aviation, Inc. Last week, however, connoisseurs recognized an unusually earnest thrust from the White rapier in a New Yorker paragraph which gave the President...
Intourist tourist may ask why, but never finds a Russian who seems to know. Ambassador Davies did not have to make this senseless detour, was routed direct. En route he dictated his impressions for transmission later to the State Department, cracked jokes and told Washington yarns in the vein of his good friend Jim Farley. Every winter since anyone can remember the Five-Year Plans, it has happened at Rostov that "snow is delaying car loadings." Last week there was about an inch of snow on the ground and sure enough car loadings were delayed, with costly Soviet farm machinery...
...more lyric vein, Mr. Babson concludes that the only safe hedges are things like health, culture, children, friendship, birds, flowers, the sea and the sky. And Mr. Babson advises against entering any period of inflation or revolution without a clear conscience. "Jesus may not have been much of a theologian," admits this moderator of the Congregationalist Church. "He, however, was a real economist...