Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rescue by Radiation" [April 28]: Our body defenses against infection would be sad indeed if we had only "5,000 white cells per cubic centimeter." Let us give our bodies a fighting chance with 5,000-10,000 leukocytes per cubic millimeter of whole blood...
...TIME hastens to reassure readers that they normally have 5,000-10,000 white corpuscles per cubic millimeter working for them...
Taking Over. For three hours under an X-ray machine. Mrs. Lowman was subjected to massive radiation that killed all her bone marrow. Her white blood corpuscle count fell from the normal 5,000 per cubic centimeter to zero. Then a kidney from a four-year-old girl (whose treatment for hydrocephalus required kidney removal) was transplanted to Mrs. Lowman. The Boston surgeons attached it to the femoral arteries and veins below the groin in her right thigh. She received a dozen marrow transfusions before and during the operation, mainly from her brothers. With her count of disease-fighting white...
...adobe hut. There now, nearly complete, stands a six-story hotel. 500 houses, and famed Architect Oscar Niemeyer's flowing, two-story Presidential Palace, resting on 20 arched concrete columns. Chugging ahead night and day on a cost-be-damned basis, hundreds of bulldozers move 65,300 cubic yds. of earth every 24 hours, hurrying to completion the airplane-shaped city designed by Architect Lucio Costa...
...this equal to A, we can solve directly a cubic in pq and then a quadratic in p, or we might go directly to the 6th degree equation in p." In any case, the probability of the better team winning an individual game...