Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strontium 90 is probably the most-feared fission product. Chemically similar to calcium, it is absorbed along with calcium by the human system and deposited in the bones, where its persistent radioactivity (half-life 28 years) may cause cancer. Collecting 500 samples of fresh human bone from widely separated parts of the world, the Columbia men analyzed them delicately and concluded that "at the present time, strontium 90 can be found in all human beings, regardless of age or geographic location s . ." The amount is not large. Averaging all the results together, they reckoned that the human race...
...more human than the middle and lower classes. The broken, frontier-barred Europe of today is the "legacy'' they left behind; their saddened heirs look back upon them not with the anger of indignation but with the hungry envy that an upright sparrow might feel for a bone-lazy peacock...
Learn to Control. The school grew out of the personal struggles of its 78-year-old founder-director, Emma Tunnicliff, who was born with a bone ailment that made it impossible for her to walk. An operation eventually cured her, but in her first joy at being able to run around like other children, she tripped over a fence and suffered an emotional trauma that prevented her speaking. Only after years of instruction from her mother did she learn to talk again and finish her education. By that time, she was determined to devote her life to other unfortunates...
...from the inscrutable Mona Lisa, and screwed up his rubbery face with Chaplinesque glee as Baby Doll rolled out of her famed crib. As Eugene the Clubman he was defied by gravity. The Nairobi Trio, composed of three derbied apes, played a hilarious composition for xylophone, mallet and finger bone. There was even a custard...
...Last week, in Columbus' University Hospital, Gene Snyder, 25, a victim of rheumatoid arthritis, who already had a partial artificial joint (made of steel) in his right hip, was laid out on his right side and anesthetized. Surgeon Wilson made a long incision clear down to the bone, and exposed the left hip joint which had been fused by the arthritic inflammation. He sawed off the top of the thigh bone (femur), ground the remaining end of the bone to the right depth and angle. He reamed out a hemispheric cavity in the pelvic bone, to accommodate the socket...