Word: vein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arsenic, a light metallike element, have destructive effects upon the twirling spirochete which causes syphilis. In the usual modern treatment some compound of arsenic, such as Neosalvarsan, is used as the main weapon, some form of mercury or bismuth as supplement. The arsenic compound is usually injected into a vein in the arm. Mercury or bismuth compounds are injected into the rump...
...room log cabin that was one of her early homes. Father's system was to buy up abandoned mines, undeveloped claims. He kept after it for 20 years before he made a big strike: then, in the abandoned Camp Bird Mine, he found the gold-bearing quartz vein that meant he had struck it rich...
...This Incident." Japanese listeners heard the War Office Radio announce that the Premier had been "killed" (not "assassinated") and the official broadcast continued in so moderate a vein that Japanese censors later passed dispatches in which it was called an "implied defense" of the killers. They, according to the War Office, "decided to rise for the purpose of removing corrupt elements around the throne who, they considered, should be charged with the crime of destroying national policy, in co-operation with Admiral Okada, the Premier, senior military and financial factions and bureaucrats, at this juncture when Japan, is confronted with...
...eastward side of his countenance bears a less benevolent aspect, a grim eye watches Japan, and he asserts, "If Japan ventures to attack the Mongolian Republic . . . . we have to be able to help that republic." And so it goes. The Russians bluster and the Japanese cat fire, in a vein ridiculously similar to boastful statements from pugilistic training camps...
Like Thomas Wolfe (Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River), Saroyan writes about himself, but in a more Whitmanesque vein: he is large, he contains multitudes. Touted as a short-story writer, mostly because his "stones" are written in prose, he seldom sets down a formal narrative. Most of his "stories" are poetic shouts-no less lyrical for being written in street-language with many a cuss word-swelling the chorus of a "Song of Myself." It might almost have been Saroyan who wrote...