Word: byproduct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treatments are themselves enough to turn all but the most indifferent stomachs. In writing so exact that the reader constantly wants to cry halt, Author Ellis mounts a picture of torture-Davenant's bloody sputum, his overpowering fatigue, his successive operations. With a callousness that is often the byproduct of continuously observed suffering, doctors compete for reputation and experiment with various treatments, while the confused patient gains hope, loses it, and finally subsides in confusion. Awkward nurses blunder, the food drives patients to mutiny; in the background lurks the cut-price competition among sanatoria entrepreneurs, who often measure their...
Space-age hardware like Nike drove the Army into a search for skilled manpower. In "Operation Meathead" (1957-59), the Army discharged 75,000 untrainables, as a byproduct cut stockade (prison) population from 6,300 to 1,500. slashed its overall courts-martial rate 22%. Its multimillion-dollar education program in 1957-58 qualified 40,000 enlisted men for high-school diplomas, by 1962 will put 1,200 in colleges. Half of the Army officers who do not have college degrees have signed up for courses. RANGERS FOR TOUGHNESS...
After twelve hours, the device had to be shut down because the uranium fission produces gas as a byproduct that dilutes the plasma and dangerously raises the pressure inside the can. In future plasma thermocouples, this can be solved by bleeding off the gas. But the cesium plasma proved to have a thermoelectric efficiency much higher than any combination of solid metals...
...house, which may contain as much of value to man as the earth's land. As the planet becomes more thickly populated, whole nations may get the bulk of their food from the fertile sea, as well as minerals and fuel in vast abundance. A quick and valuable byproduct of oceanography will be improved knowledge of the conditions governing submarine warfare. The committee did not mention, but was well aware, that Russia is pushing oceanography vigorously, has an estimated 14 large oceanographic research ships, while the U.S. has only half a dozen that are at all comparable...
...managed to say it all. The story is perhaps more spectacular because it happens in Paris, but anyone, however homebound, will feel the glow, the pain and the misery as surely as Author Marsh's lovers feel it in the city where it is presumed to be a byproduct of traveler's checks...