Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bullets, bombs and toppling masonry, doctors aim to: 1) prevent infection; 2) immobilize the limb for best circulation and proper knitting of bones. To prevent infection, Dr. Trueta carefully snipped away all bits of bruised and dying flesh, for dead tissues, deprived of circulation, are a fertile breeding ground for germs. He used no antiseptics, for most of them, he believes, kill not only germs but the delicate growing cells, do more harm than good. After the wound is trimmed, cleaned and firmly packed with dry, sterile gauze, and while the patient is still anesthetized, Dr. Trueta applies a plaster...
...dependability-had jiggling minarets, and their domes wobbled. All around people shrieked, or stupidly asked what was happening. Animals stampeded. Human legs grew weak, but when people fell in the snow, they crawled and slithered in a desperate struggle to get to open fields. All around the white ground seemed liquid and rough as a choppy...
...projectiles came over in twos, threes and fours (indicating four to six guns) at intervals of ten minutes to half an hour. At first they blew craters three feet deep in the frozen ground. Later, the craters increased to six feet deep, 18 feet across, as heavier explosive charges were used. Their military effect was nil and Viipuri's small remaining population soon got over the psychological effect...
...Dentist Sidney Bernard Finn of the University of Rochester fed a group of 90 rats a "caries-producing diet" of coarsely-ground corn. A second group of 45 rats, living on the same diet, had their teeth bathed in a weak mixture of potassium fluoride in water once a day. Results: 1) all the rats in Group I had large cavities; 2) the rats in Group II "showed a 70% reduction in dental decay"; 3) 13 of the rats in Group II had no cavities. The reduction was "not mainly in the size of the cavities, but in the number...
...Later, the snakes emerged above ground and fought their way back to 'respectability.' To help accomplish this, they had to invent one substitute after another within the eye, to take the place of the lost lizard-eye features. The fact that the snake eye is such a bunch of ersatz thus sheds light, for the first time, upon the habits and history of the first serpents...