Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Open Wound." Only the colors of the flags of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland are different, the design is the same-a cross on a plain field*-and wealthy Stockholm with her many lagoons, beauteous "Venice of the North," was a brilliant forest of cross-flags last week as the President of Finland alighted at Bromma Airport with brisk, energetic Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko...
...duty of a constitutional monarch, and His Majesty left it to Stockholm City Councilman Frederick Storm to tell Finland's President what all Swedes were thinking: "If anything wrong should happen to one Scandinavian country it would be of the utmost importance to all of them. Any wound made on any nation in our group would always be an open wound...
Last year only four major football teams wound up their regular seasons undefeated, untied. Three of them were Southern: Texas Christian, Duke, Tennessee. All three were invited to participate in post-season Bowl games. Two of them beat their opponents and the third (Duke) had Southern California licked until 18 seconds before the Rose Bowl's final whistle...
...School of Medicine, "44% of ordinary run-of-the-mill patients [are] deficient in vitamin C and 13% [are] on the verge of scurvy." They have no reserve of healing "cement substances" in their blood, and not enough of the elements that build bones, teeth and cartilage. Since healing wounds of vitamin C-deficient guinea pigs have "inferior tensile strength, a disposition to gape ... a livid appearance, and a soft consistency," they rupture easily. Lack of vitamin C may also be a factor in causing human peritonitis, for bacteria easily "leak" into an abdominal wound unprotected by healthy, growing tissue...
Last week the California scientists announced artificial production of the hormone. When tested on bruised potato tubers, "traumatic acid" (from the Greek trauma meaning wound) "was found to be identical with the natural product...