Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oldest baubles, the diamond, may help protect him against his newest peril. This week the U.S. Bureau of Standards announced that diamonds, size for size, are 1,000 times more sensitive to dangerous radiation than the famous Geiger counter...
...diamond acts very much like a Geiger counter, whose knocked-free electrons dart across a partial vacuum. But the Bureau's diamond counter will last longer, and it can be made much smaller than a Geiger counter. The little sensitive crystal can be tucked away in industrial equipment, or even inside the human body to measure the penetration of radiation, as in the X-ray treatment of cancer...
...Counter-Revolution. As with most revolutions, this one bred its own counterrevolution. Last week, in the perfumed air of a pale blue room on the third floor of Manhattan's Saks Fifth Avenue, one act of that counterrevolution was being staged. There Designer Sophie Gimbel was displaying her fall collection of 125 models. In the world of high fashion, it was a notable event...
...Counter Poke. But Politician Truman would surely have another Republican tax bill on his desk in 1948. His budget review got a rough reception by Republicans. The surplus, said New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, was proof that "the country was robbed of a tax reduction by purely political votes." Notably lacking was any Democratic cheering over the tax outlook. Said one close friend of Politician Truman: "His neck is too far out for an election year. He's got guts, that's sure, but I'm sorry he said...
...facts: because Earle had complained of radiation sickness, the doctor had borrowed an old Geiger counter from Texas Christian University and reported that Earle's body was emitting "gamma rays." But the doctor found that Earle's death was due not to radiation but to acute hepatitis (inflammation of the liver...