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Word: clumping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coronary spasm may explain the infrequent incidents of chest pain and heart attack in premenopausal women, who rarely develop atherosclerosis. The spasm may cause blood to flow more slowly, thus allowing blood platelets to clump, clot and seal off the pathway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Big Squeeze | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...Eichner took off just prior to the second mile mark, trying to work on Hampton. Meanwhile, Murphy stayed behind to organize a pack. Murphy succeeded, but only temporarily Just after two miles Thad McNulty, Noel Scidmore, Buck Logan, Peter Johnson and Adam Dixon were all running in a clump along with Murphy. By four miles Dixon dropped back, the Harvard crowd had spread out, and Tatananni had moved into fourth place...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Harriers Trounce Dartmouth | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

Reid Eichner, returning from a year off, led the effort for the thinclads, finishing just 20 seconds behind the Huskies' multi All-American Bruce Bickford in a time of 30:40. The four other Harvard scorers finished in a clump. McNulty and John Murphy tied for third at 31:40, while Noel Scidmore and newcomer Buck Logan hit the tape together one second later...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Harriers Dump Northeastern; Eichner Leads 20-35 Romp | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...only spray material far off into the heavens, but also actually crush the very atoms in the core of a star. Orbiting electrons would be pounded right into the atom's nucleus and wedded with its protons. The result of this celestial alchemy, they said, would be a clump of solidly packed neutrons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Those Baffling Black Holes | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...occurs when an ovum, or egg cell, released by a woman's ovary during ovulation is fertilized as it passes through the fallopian tube, successfully penetrated by just a single sperm that has traveled through the uterus. After the fertilized egg undergoes a number of cell divisions, the tiny clump of cells enters the uterus, where it burrows into the wall and develops for nine months or so until birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Test-Tube Baby | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

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