Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neutron beam, though designed only to harry atoms, is probably the nearest actual approach to the lethal ray of fiction. He decided therefore to take ample precautions. The control panel was moved 50 ft. from the beam and between them was interposed as a shield a three-foot wall of water the hydrogen in which is most effective in braking neutrons...
...Bancroft was publisher of the Wall Street Journal and Barron's Weekly, besides being president of the Boston News Bureau and the Cohasset National Bank...
Next morning practically every U. S. paper carried his speech in headlines as the big news of the day. On the front page of the Wall Street Journal, however, was a small box carrying the information: "New York bankers . . . would like to meet the man who could name the total bearable national debt...
...Caesarean section, for removal of a baby from the womb by means of abdominal incision when normal delivery is dangerous or impossible, is one of the most famed and spectacular of major operations. The classic Caesarean involves an incision from the umbilicus to the pubis, through the abdominal wall, peritoneum and uterine wall. The Caesarean section is named for Julius Caesar, who by legend was thus delivered from his mother. First actually recorded Caesarean on a living woman was performed about 1500 by a Swiss pig-gelder on his wife...
...building was sinking, and that this would cause the break. The were supported by two important bits of evidence: one, the site of Eliot House was merely a reclaimed swamp and not to be trusted anyway; and two, the pipes were broken about a feet away from the foundation wall of the building, just where the leverage would cause the greatest pressure...