Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Will phenosulfazole work on human patients? Clinical trials have been made at Columbia's College of Physicians & Surgeons, Manhattan's Knickerbocker Hospital, the medical branch of the University of Texas, Jefferson Davis Hospital at Houston, and the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest College. Said Columbia's Bacteriologist Murray Sanders: "Up to the present writing we do not know what effect Darvisul has on human poliomyelitis . . . One thing is clear. The real job lies ahead of us and no one can foresee the answer." In short, phenosulfazole is still an experiment...
...Then wake me not, speak in an undertone...
...such a plane (the Lockheed TF-80C is the only two-place fighter-type jet in the U.S.) is an oddly soothing sensation. The cockpit is remarkably quiet for a military airplane. Little engine noise gets into it; most of the roar and snarl is blown back with the wake. The air ducts grumble below the floor; a ventilator hisses. When the plane is up to speed, the airstream rushing over the canopy makes a moderate, roar. There is hardly any vibration. Experienced pilots say that the plane handles "like a kiddie-car." When it makes a "low pass," flying...
...after noon one day last week at Dower House, the vast 17th Century Maryland manse that once housed the Earls of Calvert and Baltimore, a telephone rang. The Washington Times-Herald was on the phone; an editor had a message for his boss. The butler and maid went to wake their mistress. They found her in her big bed, slumped over a book and an early edition of her paper. A heart attack had killed copper-haired Eleanor Medill Patterson, 63, the vain, shrewd, lonely, and lavishly spoiled woman who used a newspaper to speak her whims with a quarter...
...good player and a great hitter. I want you to show a little life . . ." Then he singled out Catcher Walker Cooper: "When you see a pitcher throw what I call a 'lazy pitch,' fire the ball back at him and wake him up." The Giants seemed to get the general idea...