Word: adjustments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adjust field-artillery glasses. Able to make out ring in distance. Entire stadium is full, except for scattered ringside seats which await arrival of fashionably-late celebrities and socialites. The crowd is hot and noisy. Most of the conversation centers on the main event. Few watching prelim between Jackie Turpin (Randy's brother) and Joe Wamsley...
...Adjust field-artillery glasses. Able to make out ring in distance. Entire stadium is full, except for scattered ringside seats which await arrival of fashion ably-late celebrities and socialites. The crowd is hot and noisy. Most of the conversation centers on the main event. Few watching prelim between Jackie Turpin (Randy's brother) and Joe Wamsley...
...weather has brought him thousands of devoted listeners, who deluge him with fan mail. When Chicago soldiers were sent off to Korea, their relatives wrote to Clint for a report on Korea's climate. A southern Illinois coal-mine owner asked-and got -information on how to adjust a barometer for use in his mine. Among Youle's most appreciative fans are the personnel of Chicago's U.S. Weather Bureau, grateful for someone who appreciates the weatherman and who knows how to handle critics when forecasts go wrong. Said one weather official: "He makes a real, honest...
This type of treatment, says Means, may cause a permanent change in the patient's hormone balance. Then, instead of the treatment making the patient normal, he will be forced to adjust himself to the treatment. Says Dr. Means: "The situation may be likened to that in which one tries to bring to even keel a boat with a list to starboard by putting a load to port. Perhaps the boat is righted, but ... if the load imposed is too heavy, the boat may sink! I believe that is what will happen with . . . ACTH and cortisone...
...architects had a hand in its design. It has five floors, each of which is painted a distinctive color-powder blue, grey, peach, green and tan. It has 7,370 windows, but it is entirely air-conditioned by a unique system, regulated by electronic "eyes" on the roof which adjust the temperature by the sun's heat. By conservative official reckoning, it cost $83 million. At first it was called "Somervell's folly"; critics predicted that after World War II it would become a vast, desolate pigeon roost. Now actually filled to overflowing, it is probably the most...