Word: doe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doe Johnson of the Commuters, while caging only one field goal, took high point honors by sinking six foul shots for a total score of eight...
...prove pregnancy in its early stages, obstetricians generally use a simple urine test. In the Aschheim-Zondek test, they inject a female mouse with a urine specimen; in the Friedman test (faster and easier to read), a virgin doe rabbit gets the injection. If the patient is pregnant, hormones in the urine produce easily detectable changes in the animal's ovaries. The Friedman test, which takes two days to complete, can spot pregnancy with 98% accuracy* ten days after the first missed period...
...still rising. In New Hampshire, where skiing is good business as well as good fun, there were 52 tows, aerial tramways(and a skimobile) operating; the previous high: 35. Every inn and farmhouse near Vermont's famed runs (among them: Suicide Six, Nose Dive, John Doe's Misery) was heavily booked, at from $2 to $20 a day. This week, the season's first ski train chugged out of Boston's North Station...
...overcoats sat in a corner, staring admiringly at Joe. The boys came in from the Elks Club, and the office filled with noise. Joe grinned indulgently. Brother Charlie winked at some of the boys and invited them upstairs for a quick one (Joe does not drink). Mrs. Lila W. Doe, secretary of the Republican Committee for Franklin, Mass., arrived. LIFE Photographer Allan Grant was there to take pictures (see cut). Joe was back on the telephone. "Send out the notices for the Steering Committee meeting," he said, getting down to business...
...blame? The conferees thought they knew the answer. Said Cleveland's Rev. Dores R. Sharpe, Baptist minister, ardent crusader for reform: "John Doe, private citizen, is the real culprit in this shame of democracy...