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Word: beene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boston's famed Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White, 73, is almost as eager as was Captain Ahab to sink a harpoon into the mightiest leviathan of the deep, but for a different reason: he wants to record its electrocardiogram. Dr. White has logged the ECG of a small (only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Beat | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Said the National Cancer Institute's Dr. Roy Hertz: "In very rare instances, cancers have arisen in patients after very prolonged use of stilbestrol, and some physicians have been led to conclude that stilbestrol was a causative factor in these cases."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hormones & Chickens | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

On the strength of this tenuous evidence. Secretary Flemming decided to ban the use of stilbestrol in fattening fowl. (It will still be permitted in fattening cattle and sheep, because even FDA supersleuths have not been able to find any residue in these meats, provided that growers stop feeding the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hormones & Chickens | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

For years, Italian Anthropologist Fabrizio Mori has been trekking into the Libyan Desert to look for graffiti, ancient inscriptions on rocks. Near the oasis of Ghat, 500 miles south of the Mediterranean coast, he found on his last expedition a shallow cave with many graffiti scratched on its walls. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Older than Egypt? | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

The discovery suggested a clue to one of the great puzzles of Egyptology: Where was the birthplace of Egyptian culture? Although many authorities believe it is the world's oldest, they have been perplexed by the fact that it did not develop gradually in the Nile Valley. About 3200...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Older than Egypt? | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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