Word: containing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...contents of the test tube are unclotted in the morning, the patient has no active tuberculosis. But if the patient is tuberculous, his blood serum will contain antibodies manufactured in the body to combat the tubercle bacilli. These antibodies will cause the sheep's red blood cells to clot. The extent of the clotting gives a measure of the severity of the disease. Thus, repeated tests can show whether or not a course of treatment is working effectively...
Each kit will contain a "Prelude" for lesson-takers about to retire ("You are going to sleep now. It is getting deeper and deeper and deeper and dee . . ."). Next morning a "Postlude" will explain that in order to make the lesson stick, pupils should read it over quickly in the accompanying printed text...
Attacking the notion of "The Best House," the booklet says that this is merely a Yard rumor. "Each of the Houses tries . . . to contain within itself all the types that can be found in the undergraduate body," it says...
...what knowledge there was on which to base further investigation. During the summer of 1948, various American scholars did some exploratory activities in Central Europe. The final aim of the five years of study was a large mass of new or newly-integrated material, in published form, which would contain a fairly comprehensive picture of Russia today...
...symposium, edited by Sorokin, will contain a study of an experiment at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital in which two treatments were tried on the mentally ill. Some patients were handled with kindness, while others were punished for misconduct...