Word: containers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
VIRTUALLY unknown to the civilized world a century ago, Middle Africa sprawls forbiddingly across a full two-thirds of the earth's second largest continent, an area big enough to contain the entire U.S. with room to spare. On one side the hot Arab lands of North Africa are linked to Europe by more than 2,000 years of common history. At the other end descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers in the Union of South Africa boast a colonial past nearly as long as that of North America. But until the mid-19th century, Middle Africa was only...
...quinine. A Philadelphia woman, 60, had a bad rash after gathering cashew nuts in Ceylon, and a relapse weeks after her return, when she found some, of the nuts in one of her bags and opened them to show to her family. Her trouble: allergy to cashews, which contain an 011 called cardal. Say the reporting doctors: U.S. travelers, now going to the tropics in increasing numbers, should be on guard. ¶ To detect cases of phenylketonuria (one of the few preventable causes of mental retardation) early enough to begin effective treatment with diet or drugs, the College of Medical...
...published sermons and books, such as Peace with God, contain false doctrines, sometimes false in se, at other times false by being incomplete. They fall within the scope of the Index." ¶ "Catholics should not tune in on Billy's radio and television programs. So well constructed are his sermons, so interwoven is true and false doctrine, so forceful and persuasive is his delivery, that even a fairly well instructed Catholic may be deceived...
...centers now being set up across the U.S. In one alphabetical section (more than 800 pages), it lists 15,000 products by their trade names, with the chemical content where the manufacturers are willing to disclose it. There is a wealth of detail on household compounds, the poisons they contain, and the antidotes. Samples...
...from cobalt 60. This was odd, they thought; cobalt 60 is not a fission product, and it had not been found in other radioactive material, even in samples from much closer to Ground Zero. To make doubly sure. Weiss and Shipman ran a careful analysis. One clam proved to contain one-tenth of a microcurie of cobalt 60; the other had one-third of a microcurie...