Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crushed Legs. Like Sir Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin, the high blood pressure discovery was almost an accident. During London's 1941 air raids, doctors found that victims whose legs had been pinned under timbers or masonry for several hours sometimes died mysteriously of kidney failure. The...
But Dictyostelium discoideum is no ordinary amoeba; its cells have hidden capabilities. Thousands of them will be grazing peacefully, paying no attention to one another. Then a few will drift together, forming a little clump. All the amoebae for microns* around stop their feeding and dividing. Like city people running...
There was no doctor on the atoll (pop. 60)-but there was a radio ham, Steve Barnes. Barnes went to work, finally tuned in an old friend and fellow ham, Joseph Bonsted, 6,000-miles away.in Audubon, NJ. Said Barnes: "Joe, there's been an accident here. Can you...
Crown Prince Carol of Rumania had just turned 30 when he met her in 1924. According to one version, the meeting took place at a ball in Bucharest's officers' club. According to another, he saw her at the opera, and winked at her. According to a third...
A dynamo of high-voltage good will, Dr. Poling has been at various times author (20 books published, including five novels), pastor, radiorator, lecturer, world traveler, columnist and editor. In 1921 he broke his back in an automobile accident, but that scarcely slowed him down. Last month he was awarded...