Word: bergquist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That could some day become a standard question among men and women. Writing in the British journal Lancet last week, Researchers Christer Bergquist, Sven Johan Nillius and Leif Wide of the University Hospital of Uppsala, Sweden, reported progress toward an unusual goal: the development of a nasal spray contraceptive. In their work, they used a derivative of a hormone known as LRH (for luteinizing hormone- releasing hormone). In high daily doses the experimental chemical inhibits ovulation by curtailing the secretion of still other hormones called gonadotropins, essential for the maturing and release of the eggs...
...Roberts sisters chalked up another easy win for the Crimson at second doubles, as they trounced Duke and Patterson, bagel and bread stick. Liz Livingston moved up from the J.V. to team with Ditzler at third doubles, and the pair easily waltzed past Gray and Bergquist...
...Occasionally they would tear onto the shoulder of the road, skimming around a car or truck before hurtling back into the ditch. Driving a 450-lb. snowmobile at high speed on rough terrain is like riding a brahma bull-an exercise in keen judgment and balance. As Driver Al Bergquist, an Illinois farmer in his saner moments, told TIME Correspondent Dick Woodbury, "You're whipping along at 70 m.p.h. and you charge over a hill, and you just don't know what's there...
...UMass pitching staff went into the weekend with a combined E.R.A. of 0.87, but coach Richard Bergquist sent eight pitchers into action in the two games with Connecticut, and he doesn't expect much help from his bullpen today. Sophomore righthander John Olson will be starting, with a record of 4-2 and an E.R.A. of 1.67. He was the losing pitcher in Saturday's game...
...went out to Omaha two years ago and everybody said then that an Eastern club couldn't get past the first round. They were right," Bergquist said...