Word: sliced
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...blood and plasma in some cases) and big liquid feedings by injection, before & after the operation. Most of the functions of the stomach, pancreas and some other organs, Brunschwig points out, can be performed by substitutes: a section of intestine takes the place of the stomach, a thin slice of pancreas left in the body, or injections, can supply the body's insulin needs...
Sent back another bigger slice...
...history of a $7.84 bottle of Scotch from cask to customer, showed that the semiprecious liquid leaves British shores, bottled and labeled, at 97?, reaches U.S. shores at only $1.04. A sizable chunk, $2.32¼, goes into the U.S. Treasury in custom and excise duties; but the biggest slice ($3.14) goes to U.S. retailers...
Harland B. Newton, Parkhurst's defense counsel, stressed to an attentive court of the rehabilitative possibilities of his client, and managed to slice off six months to a year from the demands of District Attorney George Thompson, who sought a penalty of three to five years...
Street Scene (book by Elmer Rice; music & lyrics by Kurt Weill & Langston Hughes; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman & the Playwrights' Co.) is much more folk opera than musical-a re-handling of Elmer Rice's famous outside slice of life almost entirely in musical terms. There are arias as well as tunes; septets, choral passages, large-scale orchestral effects, recitatives. As music, some of this is fancy, facile, too high-pitched. But, thanks to the rest of the score and to the residual vitality in Elmer Rice's play, Street Scene is steadily interesting musical theater...