Word: balloons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...balloon barrage...
...Three Ghosts Beating a Ghost. He draws in a freewheeling, somewhat wobbly cartoon style but his figures are unerringly placed upon the canvas; they go together so naturally as to seem more concerned with themselves and each other than with being in somebody's picture. More important, his balloon-headed people and quaking landscapes convey a good deal of Morris' dominating idea: the insecurity and aloneness...
...general, the Journal frowns on sensationalism. Says President and Editor J. Donald Ferguson: "Circulation will balloon up just as well when it rains and people buy papers to put on their heads as when you dig up a good scandal, and the boost will last just about as long...
...results proved accurate in only one out of three cases, because nearly all the loose cancer cells went on down the intestinal tract or were destroyed by the stomach's digestive juices. Then Dr. Papanicolaou tried a device invented by Dr. Frederick G. Panico: a sausage-sized balloon with about 250 pieces of braided silk attached. The patient swallowed the balloon and about two feet of rubber tube with it. Once inside the stomach, the balloon was inflated and worked around for an hour so that the tufts of silk would pick up as many cells as possible...
...patients examined by the balloon method, operations later showed that 17 had cancer. The balloon-smear test had given a positive reaction in 14 of the cases and a suspicious reaction...