Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...body. Coupled with an electric shock, TEA promptly defibrillated 44 isolated dog hearts up to eight times each. The technique then saved the baby boy. In four other fibrillating human patients since treated in the same way, it has worked equally well. TEA may be the trick that wall allow considerably longer, cooler, safer heart operations than have been possible...
...relieve the "genuine distress" of the lead and zinc industry. President Eisenhower announced the expected quotas that will cut imports of the two metals 33% from their current levels. Set at 80% of the 1953-57 average, the quotas will allow imports of 354,720 short tons of lead, v. a five-year average of 481,638 tons, and 520,960 short tons of zinc, v. a five-year average-of 651,200 tons...
...purpose of the fund would be to allow the Council to operate without relying on voluntary student contributions. Since, according to Leland, "most of the Council's functions benefit the College and future students, rather than the students now enrolled," this would be a fairer way of raising money...
...tiny village of Fanfie Koro. French Administrative Officer Gallierè stepped from the car, greeted the local chief, and solemnly accepted the gift of a white chicken. Speaking through an interpreter, Gallierè explained that the chief of the French government, General Charles de Gaulle, had decided to allow Africans to choose fraternal association with France or to refuse it and become independent. He held up sample ballots, told the villagers that a yellow one meant yes, a violet one, no. The villagers seemed astonished that they were offered a choice. Said the chief: "Of course, we intend to remain...
Hoover admits that revolutions may be good or bad, "but St. John's horseman had no good purpose ... We do not allow our imaginations to extend to the idea that St. John was prophesying Communism, even though one is tempted, partly because of the prophetic statement that power was given to the horseman 'to take peace from the world...