Word: veined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...topic will be "The first three dynasties: the organization of the administration; the arts and crafts; crude brick architecture; the step pyramid of Saqoara; granite temples of Giza. The next talk of the group, to be given next Tuesday, will continue in the same vein, being on "the consequences of the great period, dynasties V-VI. The causes of the collapse of the first great monarchy of Egypt...
Heart Probe. At the Auguste Viktoria Hospital, Eberswalde, Germany, a Dr. Forssmann, assistant surgeon, opened a vein at his elbow and into it worked a long, soft rubber probe through the circuitous passages to his heart. Then he walked to the hospital X-ray machine to prove his accomplishment. Similar stunts have often been performed on experimental animals. The therapeutical value of such practices is not yet known, but Dr. Forssmann thinks that such probing can introduce certain medicaments directly to the heart better than the blood will carry them there...
Last week's $1,000,000 was in the same vein. New York University wishes a public health centre, to emulate Columbia University with its new (Harkness-bolstered) medical centre. And to Mr. Baker the faculty turned. Picking him was shrewd, for the professor of surgery at Bellevue Hospital, one of the units of the proposed centre, has long been Dr. George David Stewart. And Dr. Stewart has almost as long been Mr. Baker's doctor and friend. Hence sentiment made the ready Baker hand more ready, and a little insistent. The $1,000,000 was, he stipulated...
...would leave a small piece of skin remaining so that the ignominy of complete decapitation was avoided. Cases were reported here headsmen had been persuaded to save the life of the condemned by making a large, gory slanting slice, which appeared to be fatal but which avoided the jugular vein and spinal column...
...paced a little man very stout and round for his small stature, with the carefully shaven and glistening head of a Prussian, and with two hard, compelling eyes. Subordinates wept, but not STIMMING. Far away in the Manhattan office of the North German Lloyd, the blow pierced a deep vein of German sentiment; and of the two principal officials one sobbed as only a man can, while the other sat for a time stunned with grief. Naturally, however, the blackest pall of German grief hung thickly over Hamburg...