Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...single diagnosis of polio. That was impractical. Many physicians relied (and still do) on a microscopic examination of a droplet of fluid taken by puncture from the patient's spinal column. In normal, healthy fluid, there are few or no cells-not more than eight to the cubic millimeter. In victims of virus diseases like polio there may be 500 cells or more. This is still only a rough & ready test; half a dozen known viruses will produce the same result, and recent researches have turned up several viruses that seem...
...Killer. Philadelphia's Exterminator Corp. of America began selling a 7-oz. electric sprayer which permeates up to 15,000 cubic feet with a bug-killing chemical called lindane. Price...
...mass, however, the star is no midget. Astronomer Luyten figures that it is 40% heavier than the sun. A cubic inch of its densely packed matter would weigh something like 1,000-tons, and if a 150-lb. man could stand on its surface, his body would weigh 300,000 tons...
...whole star to bits. It would glory briefly as a supernova, shining more brightly than all the stars in the sky. But when the excitement was over, the only thing left would be a "neutron-star": a ball of peculiar matter made largely or entirely of neutrons. A cubic inch of this strange stuff would weigh 18 million tons, and a mass the size of the sun could be packed into a sphere less than 100 miles in diameter...
London's Imperial War Museum today houses many of the products of this period of the artist's life-spiky, devastated landscapes spotted with cubic gun pits, decorated with friezelike rows of artillery shells, and peopled by angular, steel-helmeted robots. The postwar years showed that Wyndham Lewis conceived of peace in much the same terms as war. Nature, to him, was a savage, unruly landscape, to be translated by the artist into what he called the "more tense and angular entity" of rational thought. He exclaimed...