Word: thicker
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...this point, Commodore Tattnall in command of the American Asiatic squadron came to the assistance of the hard-pressed British in violation of his neutrality. Said Tattnall, "Blood is thicker than water." This breach of neutrality by Commodore Tattnall was later sustained by public opinion and by the U. S. Government...
...which might have pierced a thicker hide than Texas Jack's. Many of his colleagues in Washington wondered, too, why Mr. Garner had not even gone to the funeral of his old friend William Bankhead, Speaker of the House...
...believe that small amounts of surplus fluid must be drawn out to relieve pressure. that patients should be denied liquids. But Drs. Gross & Ehrlich consider drastic dehydration dangerous, achieve the same result in another way. They give hypertonic (heavy) glucose injections to patients in coma or shock. The glucose, thicker than body fluids, sucks out fluid from the tissues through osmotic pressure. thus reduces tension in the brain. ¶ Also harmful, say Drs. Gross & Ehrlich. is the common practice of lumbar puncture (spine-tapping) to examine the spinal fluid soon after a head injury. During the first few hours after...
Paradoxically, though Lufkin's newsprint sells for only $40 to $50 a ton,* it is harder to make from Southern pine than are more expensive papers. (Texas shortleaf pine yields a newsprint thicker, less pliable than standard newsprint.) Southland's 50,000 tons a year will be no more than a drop in the 3,000,000-ton bucket of the U. S. newsprint market. But if Southland's product becomes generally acceptable, the South's newsprint industry may be due for at least a boomlet...