Word: vein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...things in a lighter vein, I asked Clasby what his biggest sports thrill at Harvard has been. "Which sport?" he asked me back. I had forgotten that I was questioning the man who will probably be Harvard's first major sport nine-letter winner in many years. I specified football, and he thought for a moment. "I guess it would be that 96-yard run against Washington," he said...
Cummings speaks at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. Continuing in the vein in which he opened last month (i and my parents), Cummings tonight offers "i and their son." He will read selected poems at the conclusion of the talk...
...Must Have a Leadership . . ." On Boston Common he drew a crowd which police said was as large as those that turned out for Al Smith or F.D.R. Ike concentrated on the threat of "godless Communism," which "strikes at the jugular vein of freedom...
...Rubber Pistons. In July, they found their volunteer: a man of 41 whose mitral valve (between the upper and lower quarters of the heart's left side) was not working right because of rheumatic-fever scars. His chest was opened. Through a vein leading from a lung, a tube was slipped into the upper left side of the heart. This drew blood out of the heart to the six-cylinder pump, where fingerlike rubber pistons boosted it on its way. From the pump another tube led the pulsing blood back to the patient's aorta, where it would...
...uranium mining and processing is a hot and dirty job which promises few big bonanzas. "In most eight-hour days," says one prospector, "it just isn't possible to recover enough high-grade ore to pay your expenses. Maybe after you have moved 75 tons of rock your vein peters out and you have to drill around and start a new shaft. Then, after days of back-breaking work and futile drilling and blasting, you hit a pocket and in a few hours you take out enough to pay expenses for quite a while...