Word: detect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...detect many early cancers which otherwise defy diagnosis is by studying the cells in a minute quantity of fluid taken from the bone marrow (usually breastbone) through a large-bore needle, reported researchers at Ontario's Hamilton General Hospital. Even when cancer is not directly suspected, and when the symptoms are such common ones as anemia, fatigue, loss of weight, or changes in the white blood-cell count, they often find telltale cancer cells in the marrow. After running the tests on 4,100 patients, they now make them routinely in all cases where diagnosis is in doubt...
...Continue your study and critical analysis of the great international questions of our day . . . detect and pursue the ways [to] stability and solidarity," the President told the students. "Lift the eyes of men and women above the drab and desolate horizon of hate and fear and hopelessness . . . You believe in the brotherhood of man ... So believing and so united, you constitute the mightiest temporal force for good on this globe of ours...
...least 15 carrier cows and see if his calves are ever dwarfs. This takes a long time, so the cattle experts are trying hard to find some other system. Dr. Paul Wallace Gregory of the University of California at Davis has invented a "profilometer," an instrument to detect the slight bump on a bull's forehead which shows that he may be a carrier. Sometimes X rays are used to look for the "crumpled" vertebrae that carriers sometimes have. Chief obstacle to cleaning the herds of carriers is the cattle fanciers' love of low-slung critters likely...
...famed seismologist, dean of St. Louis University's Institute of Technology, president of the American Geophysical Union, author (Theoretical Seismology); of a liver infection; in St. Louis. A top authority on earthquakes, Jesuit Macelwane developed a system for tracking hurricanes, pioneered in the use of the seismograph to detect oil deposits...
...Southeast Asia because they are believed to have medicinal value. The Chinese consider powdered rhinoceros horn a powerful aphrodisiac (it is not), and will pay $2,500 for a single horn. Other parts of the animal, too have honored places in the Asian pharmacopoeia. Cups made of rhino horn detect poison by shattering to bits or by making the poison bubble. Rhino shin is good for leg trouble; the hip cures female disorders. Even the dung is beneficial for skin ailments...