Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon the rash spread up Joyce's arms and down her body. The itching was almost unbearable. When Holdridge was shipped overseas, her rash went away. When he came back, so did the rash. Soon, on her way to work as a telephone operator in San Francisco, Joyce Holdridge was hiding behind a newspaper on the bus, wearing dark glasses to cover her swollen eyes, dressing in long-sleeved, high-necked blouses. In the evenings and on days off she never left the house, says she, because "I looked so terrible...
...being retired. Last week, the American Medical Association announced that its Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry has withdrawn acceptance of the drug because it causes too many bad reactions: rashes, fever, blood disorders. Despite these drawbacks, sulfathiazole was lavishly used until such newer drugs as sulfadiazine and penicillin came along. Doctors may still prescribe sulfathiazole, but will want to be sure that the patient can take...
...advantage of working well enough even when they don't work too well. In the diffusion process, for instance, the U-235 has only to be pure enough to be "fissionable." If the Russian apparatus is inferior, their U-235 is just as explosive as if it came from the great precision plants at Oak Ridge, Tenn...
...shawls, ever worn by man. Most of them were made of embroidery so delicate that the tiny stitches covering all the cloth looked like meshes of the finest weaving. Across them pranced birds and wildcats in reds, pinks, greens and yellows almost as fresh and brilliant as when they came from the dye vats. From their edges dripped cataracts of brightly colored fringe; the shirts had masses of fringe instead of sleeves. In life, the man who wore them must have delighted the eyes of his barbaric gods...
Long Cloth. Out of the inexhaustible bundle came a striped cloth 12 ft wide and 87 ft. long. Bird believes that this is the biggest cloth ever woven by pre-machine methods. He estimates that the weavers must have walked 77 miles while laying out the warp threads...