Word: carbonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Hibben got some strong support. At his request, University of Michigan scientists had put the tusk fragments through their new radioactive carbon dating apparatus. This machinery, with the help of a Geiger counter, samples the amount of Carbon 14 in the tested material, assessing its age by the number of counts it makes. Their findings: the tusk is 20,000 years old. By implication, so is Sandia...
...month. Anthropologists now have most of the skull parts (from different individuals) of a "proto-man" who probably lived one million years ago, along with saber-toothed tigers and giant hyenas. Professor Raymond A. Dart of Witwatersrand University gave Prometheus his name because some of his bones contained free carbon, which indicates that they had been burned, and hints at the use of fire...
Voters in one barrio went to the polls with envelopes containing carbon paper, so they could make copies of their ballots to prove they had voted for Quirino's Liberal, ticket, as required by the men who bought their votes. In Pasay a city near Manila, armed toughs marched into several polling places and made off with the ballot boxes. In Precinct 99 of Manila, a masked man deposed the election commissioner and announced that he would count the votes. His tally: Quirino. 149; Magsaysay. 1. There was some violence, ten deaths (six of them in gang-ridden Cavite...
...Gloria Grahame. a lady of uncertain virtue who has been disfigured by one of the gangsters, Ford quits the police force and begins a one-man vendetta against Scourby that winds up in the usual litter of dead bodies and mass arrests. Since all the other characters are merely carbon copies from previous cops-and-robbers films, Gloria Grahame runs away with the picture by giving some complexity to her role of a female lush on the make for mink coats and high living...
...Already many fish products, e.g., fish flour and fish concentrates, are being made imperishable enough to be shipped to any part of the world. But even if all the world were to live on such stuff exclusively, they would never make a dent in the 135 billion tons of carbon (equivalent to 350 billion tons of starch) that is fixed every year in the fertile fields...