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Word: delayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for the long delay in completely isolating the virus was the difficulty of separating it from the substances in which it grows. Until recently, a relatively "pure" preparation was only 1% virus and 99% "gunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: One Millionth of an Inch | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...delay in the reporting of results in the City Council and School Committee elections is due to the complicate manner in which votes are counted under proportional representation voting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Figures in Cambridge Voting Unannounced | 11/4/1953 | See Source »

After an hour's delay, Toriello made a new decision: "The show must not go on." "Thief!" "Gangster!" yelled the gate-crashers, showering the arena with bottles and refuse. Then, joined by angry ticketholders, they grabbed wooden chairs and seat cushions, and began hurling them into the arena. Breaking down the wooden ringside barrier, they heaped the debris in the arena and set fire to it all. They smashed half the toilets beneath the stands. When it was all over, 23 had been hurt, including eight cops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Oh, Come to the Fair! | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

Private Fall-Down. AEC's reasons for delay in taking this obvious step were more political than technical. Since the start of the cold war, atomic bombs of all types have been in brisk demand, but there was little public or congressional demand for atomic power. Said Commissioner Murray sadly: "When attention is called to the danger of falling behind in the nuclear power race, too many are apt to reply, 'So what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic Age: New Phase | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...past, there has been little facility for the hockey player and none for the pleasure skater. Any plans for making skating a part of the College athletic program have been necessarily kept on ice. With the opening of the new rink, the H.A.A. should delay no longer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rationing the Rink | 10/24/1953 | See Source »

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