Word: injecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time has merely over-taken the repair department has been carefully concealed. Undoubtedly these innovations will add zest to a game that depends on fast foot work, for next to the traditional banana skin, a well placed puddle of water can accelerate matters to an exceptional degree. This should inject some humor into a game which formerly has depended too much on the temper of the players. And squash will not be the first sport which has descended to slipshod practices...
...biologists had fooled around with the tuberculosis bacillus for almost 50 years, they had developed two standard methods of discovering the bacilli in sputum. One was to stain a smear with dyes and search for the germs with a microscope. That was crude and inaccurate. The other was to inject suspected sputum into guinea pigs, creatures unusually susceptible to tuberculosis. That was slow and expensive. A quicker, surer method of diagnosis was needed...
...infantile paralysis incidence low because they have recognized the early signs of the disease and used serums to prevent the paralysis. Best serum comes from convalescents. It is difficult to get, and scarce. Massachusetts, where the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission had three doctors traveling around the state to inject the serum into spines, seems to have done the best preventive work this year...
...discuss home "fundamental principles and ideals." He plunged into a series of generalities such as "the march of progress," "great constructive measures," and "an economic and social system, vastly more intricate and delicately adjusted than ever before" (one of his most frequent phrases). He spoke also of attempts "to inject the Government into business in competition with its citizens." And he spoke of "the American system...
...plot, as is usual, is not of great import, but what there is of it concerns the love of a Crinoline Girl for the Prince of Wales of that era. Raymond Hitchcock, who must date from at least 1860 himself, makes frantic and exceedingly long-winded attempts to inject humor into the proceedings. At times he succeeds admirably, but for the most part the humorous stretches are too long, and consequently far too thin...