Word: dose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Thank you for your splendid article on Jimmy Durante (TIME, Jan. 24). In my opinion, it's a dose of the right medicine for wartime readers and did as much for my morale as a whole page of encouraging war news...
...only regret is that your writer missed the best Durante line of them all. Jimmy described Jimmy perfectly when he once referred to somebody else as "one of dose dese, dose and democrat guys...
Griffiths noticed that the noise experiment has always been performed on sheltered laboratory rats. For his own tests, he hunted down more than 100 wild rats in Baltimore alleys and warehouses, caged them and gave them the standard dose of shrill whistles and air blasts. Contrary to expectations, the wild rats got mad and tried to bite the whistles...
Britain's bomber chief, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur T. Harris, once said that it may take 40,000 tons to kill Berlin. Counting small-scale raids, the city has had about half of that dose. Harris has 20,000 tons...
...Match to a Fire. Professor Bogomoletz' description of ACS's complex action in the body reads like one of Professor Einstein's "simplifications" of his theory. The serum's effects begin to show about the time of the second dose. First signs: 1) increased ability of blood substances to enter cells; 2) dilated capillaries; 3) a rise in lymphocytes (a kind of white blood corpuscle). Three or four hours later, a second stage begins, during which lymphocytes decrease and monocytes (another kind of white corpuscle) multiply and migrate from the blood into the solid tissue. Cells...