Word: dose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...healing dose is "measured by the 100th parts of a cubic centimeter" of ACS, injected under a patient's skin or into a vein. Two doses may last a lifetime. Large doses are harmful and are never used. Minute amounts make tissue activity speed up. Professor Bogomoletz believes that probable longevity goes with each dose, no matter for what reason it is given...
...last week a "high Government official"-very high and very close to the President-decided that the U.S. people had become too complacent and needed another dose of gloom. Rounding up the regulars in the White House press room, he took them to a quiet room in the Mayflower Hotel and there, over oysters and drinks, gave them a "not-for-attribution" talk about his and the President's worries...
...from Allied air and sea arms. The New Britain shore nearest New Guinea took a sustained bombing. Madang, the feeder base for the Jap Huon line and 200 miles up the coast from Finschhaven, took a night shelling from U.S. warships. Gasmata, a New Britain stronghold, got a similar dose of gunfire. In both actions, U.S. vessels penetrated waters that had been Jap preserves since early 1942, had seldom smelled the powder of the U.S. Navy...
Then-&-Now. Seeing its man kayoed after he was so far ahead on points was a bitter dose to Paradise Valley Negroes. But labor's political strategists took heart. True, they had lost. But the last time they took an important hand in a Detroit mayoralty race they lost overwhelmingly, 260,95740-154,050. This time, in partnership with the Negroes, labor had furnished Detroit its first real mayoral battle in 20 years...
After much brewing and stewing, the House Ways & Means Committee finally had its 1944 tax medicine about ready for bottling this week. The dose...