Word: whack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spine. Most men who die in delirium tremens die because their hearts give way. Drs. Piker & Cohn prevent that by loading the patient with digitalis. Digitalis, besides being a heart regulator, is a diuretic, something the raving drunkard requires. In delirium tremens the digestive system is out of whack. Drs. Piker & Cohn wash out the patient's stomach, purge him with cascara and Epsom salts, feed him well. And three times daily the doctors alkalize the patient with potus imperialis, a drink of ½ oz. cream of tartar dissolved in 3 pints of water, sweetened and flavored with lemon...
President Winter also took a valedictory whack at Dentist Leroy L. Hartman of Columbia University, whose dental pain-killer created great hopes among patients, great consternation among dentists, who found that it did not always work (TIME, Feb. 3). Dr. Hartman last week told the A. D. A. all about Hartman's Solution, his method of applications, and the types of cavities it is suited for. Dr. Paul Wells of Chicago reported that of 23,000 patients treated, 30% felt no pain whatsoever after application of Hartman's Solution, 30% felt some pain, 40% gained no anesthesia whatsoever...
...impact test) a sample piece until it breaks. Though one test is as good as another, none really explains why an automobile bolt occasionally cracks, an airplane strut snaps, a battleship's armor plate yields. By building a machine which hits a piece of metal with the whack of a bullet traveling 1,000 ft. per sec., H. C. Mann of Watertown (Mass.) Arsenal discovered that when a piece of metal is struck a very strong blow, its molecules release some of their potential energy, help shatter themselves. Mr. Mann's machine consists of a brace to hold...
...David Lawrence this was an unwarranted Presidential whack on a spot already raw from a merciless blow of the Democratic National Committee's canny old Pressagent Charles Michelson, Picking up a Republican handout which recommended, among others, the columns of Lawrence & Co., Pressagent Michelson, in the Democratic Committee's frankly partisan weekly letter, baldly remarked early in April that "the Republican National Committee has formally taken over the Three Musketeers of anti-Administration, Frank Kent, Mark Sullivan and David Lawrence...
...lasted two minutes, 38 seconds. In them, Doyle had time to fetch Baer one resounding whack on the jaw. Baer had time to hit Doyle below the belt and then, because New York Commission rules prevent referees from stopping a fight on a foul, to floor his opponent twice and win by a technical knockout...