Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fell over orchidaceous ("Nero Wolfe was an orchidaceous hound," prompted Pronouncer Alleman), and a girl collapsed over the almost impossible chiastolite. On word No. 501, Sandra faced a crisis. Is vicinage spelled ige or age? Taking a deep breath, Sandra chose the "a," and survived...
...Patient F.R.) blew up at me at the dance. He likes the fast music and he got mad when I played a slow number in the juke box. He walked away from me. The next day I chose to take care of him in an ether treatment because I made up my mind that somehow I'd get him to like me again. He does now, but it was because of my persistence in the matter...
...Conservatives, the May 26 election is a big gamble. With the prime-ministership, Eden inherited only a thin 19-seat majority from Sir Winston Churchill. Had Eden wished, he could have limped along for the remaining 18 months of the Conservatives' five-year mandate. But he chose to risk an election to seek a mandate of his own for a full five years, hoping to win a bigger majority...
Only Setback. For human subjects he chose Ohio's Chillicothe Federal Reformatory. Of 30 volunteers (between the ages of 21 and 30), 26 got a minute droplet of a single strain of polio virus in a teaspoon-ul of milk. The human guinea pigs proved even more susceptible than the chimpanzees to the desired kind of infection. They did not get sick in any apparent way Yet the virus multiplied in their digestive tracts, boosted their antibody levels and was excreted in the stools for one to twelve weeks. It was in this connection Dr. Sabin reported his only...
Biochemical Sciences, Biology, and Chemistry dropped slightly from their percentages for '57, but 13.3 of the class still chose one of these...