Word: wound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mensch, a pillar of the community, but always remained a smalltime schwanz. Commission sleuths assembled a voluminous dossier that told everything-and nothing-about him. They could detail his gross income and net profits for February 1958, but they could not discover his exact birth date and wound up listing eight in the year 1911. They learned that his boyhood nickname was "Sparky," then gave three different reasons for the origin of the name...
...three years, Northwestern $180 million in five. Duke hopes to raise $100 million in less than four years, while Yale and Long Island University are pursuing the same amount in a decade. In 1961, the University of Southern California set out to pick up $106 million over 20 years, wound up with $117 million in just five, so it promptly launched a new $34 million drive...
...toxicology of snake venoms after his prized dog died of a rattlesnake bite. In the laboratory he extracted snake venom, purified it, laced it with radioactive iodine-131, and injected it into the hind legs of dogs. Most of the venom stayed in the immediate area of an untreated wound for about 20 minutes, Dr. Snyder found, but with a tourniquet around the leg it stayed in place almost twice as long. Crosscutting and suction removed very little venom, so Surgeon Snyder decided that the most effective way to get rid of it was to cut out a disk...
Immediate first aid for snake bite still consists of applying a tourniquet between the wound and the heart-slack enough, says Dr. Snyder, for a finger to pass between the bandage and the limb. Then a dash to the hospital, where antivenom is given after the surgery. If a hunter is hours away from a hospital, he may even be able to perform the emergency surgery himself, because snake venom acts as a mild local anesthetic and leaves the bite area numb...
Harvard's lead, lasted until Paul Hurley unleashed the East's best shot eight minutes later. The Eagles were killing a penalty charged against their goalie when Hurley wound up his slapper outside the blue line. The screaming puck bounced off bill Fitzsimmon's pads into the goal...