Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taking a deep breath, Lukens offered far less-and wound up the owner of 31 buildings and 125 acres. His plan: rename the place Science Island and make it a summer center for the most ambitious high school science students in the land...
...lost 4 Ibs.), read the Bible, watched TV through a window in the 7-ft. diameter cone, slept only six hours a night but made up for it by lying on his back some twelve hours a day, doing nothing at all. Sheets of potassium superoxide absorbed his breath, removed the potentially poisonous carbon dioxide and released the fresh oxygen that he lived on all week. He came through so well that the space doctors are now at last ready to try the test in the weightless condition of actual space, first with animals, then with...
...York Federal Reserve Bank cannily reported that the economy "moved sideward" during March. Said the bank: "Hesitations of this type are not, of course, at all unusual during a course of sustained business expansion. But they always create uncertainty as to whether there has been a pause for breath which will be followed by renewed progress, or whether an advance warning of business recession has been posted...
...Francis Drake and the Frenchman Jean Nicot (after whom nicotine is named) all helped to popularize smoking, considered it good for the health. In 1614 a Scottish doctor named William Barclay wrote that tobacco "prepares the stomach for the acceptance of meat, makes the voice clear and the breath sweet," pushed it as an antidote for "hypochondric melancholy" and such diseases as arthritis and epilepsy...
When a person talks on the telephone, he is silent more than half the time, either listening to the other party, collecting his thoughts, or perhaps just catching his breath. The Long Lines Department of the American Telephone &. Telegraph Co. last week told how it craftily takes advantage of such conversational pauses to double the carrying capacity of its U.S.Britain cable...