Word: dose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salt-marsh species so thoroughly adapted themselves to life with DDT that it took ten times the regular dose to kill their wiggler offspring. The discovery justified an uneasy suspicion held by entomologists: when the weaker members of the tribe are killed off, the survivors, mating together, gradually produce a strain that can ignore...
Said Dr. Andrewes: "We strongly suspect that catching a cold in real life depends on receiving quite a small dose of virus at a time when one's defenses are momentarily off their guard-looking the other way." What the defenses are, exactly, Dr. Andrewes has no idea...
Maybe Not. Despite all the impressive tests, some doctors were still dubious. The neohetramine tests were perhaps too perfect: most men & women do not get as much rest and will not dose themselves as carefully and regularly as the selected patients. Some doctors pointed to the danger of overdosing; e.g., a man who tries to cure a cold double-quick by doubling the recommended dose may get drowsy and fall asleep while driving...
...matter of workouts this week, Munro fed his charges a big dose of conditiong Thursday when the squad spent most of the afternoon in a concentrated soccer "keep away." Yesterday, the team returned to scrimmaging...
...members of a community, the same functions as voters and volunteers." When Harvard was reforming its curriculum, Wellesley did the same, tightened course requirements to give freshmen and sophomores a broader general education. After two years, the girls pick their major. If they want, they can take a dose of child psychology and attend lectures on the problems of marriage. But most girls seem to want something more. As Junior Callie Huger puts it: "I want to broaden my mind, not just my husband's stomach...