Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Surgeon General Leonard Scheele, were in huddles all week long, much of the time with an advisory committee of top virologists, trying to figure out what to do. One bright suggestion, from state health officials: try giving only 1½ drops (Vw cc.) of vaccine, instead of a whole cubic centimeter, to stretch the supply. Furthermore, inject it not into the muscle, as now, but under the skin or between the skin's layers (in hopes that this is less likely to provoke paralysis). At week's end the advisers and PHS decided against this course because...
...face of it, nothing could be more thorough than the inactivation and testing procedures worked out by Dr. Jonas E. Salk and adopted as standard by the Public Health Service. To "kill" or (more precisely) inactivate the virus, a formaldehyde solution is added to it. Typically, one cubic centimeter of this is enough to kill the virus in 4,000 cc. of culture. After about , three days only one particle out of 10 million will be left active. In an effort to eliminate even this last particle, the process is continued for as long as 14 days...
...sees the library in terms of 120 miles of shelving, filling 12,000,000 cubic feet, the fourth largest college collection in the world. "We don't deal in personalities, just books and services," he says, perhaps thinking of his 18-year effort to win the confidence of the faculty he serves...
Transistorized Computer. Bell Telephone Laboratories told last week about a large-capacity electronic computer whose essential works occupy only three cubic feet of space instead of a good-sized room. The reduction of size is due to the replacement of bulky vacuum tubes by 800 tiny transistors and 11,000 germanium diodes. All of them together need only 100 watts ) of current, less than one-twentieth of the power required by a comparable vacuum-tube computer...
...tones) and tweeter (high tones). Tweeters may be cones (sweet, not too brilliant), horns (plenty of highs and often tinny), or the newly developed electrostatic type, in which a flat sheet of metal foil moves in the open air. Most speakers still need an enclosure of some six cubic feet, but it is no longer necessary to have huge coffins standing about the living room...