Word: dose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gossips had it otherwise. But only after the death of Marie's 78-year-old mother 15 months later did the police begin to take the rumors seriously. Exhuming the body of Léon Besnard, they found it to contain a heavy dose of arsenic. The state took 31 months to build its case. Townspeople recalled that Marie had once recommended arsenic to an unhappily married friend as a substitute for a hard-to-get divorce and that Léon had asked friends to have an autopsy performed if he died suddenly. Postmistress Pintou flatly accused Marie...
...When dollar-conscious Britain decided to try out oral contraceptives developed in the U.S., doctors in Birmingham thought they might cut the cost by cutting the dose. U.S. authorities had just approved a cut from 10 mg. per pill (taken 20 days a month) of norethynodrel (trade-named Enovid in the U.S., Conovid in Britain by G. D. Searle & Co.) to 5 mg. The British cut it to 2.5 mg. The policy proved to be penny-wise and pound-foolish: of the first 48 women who took the half-dose pills, 14 became pregnant. Later trials switched...
Ohio State tried its first dose of Ivy League "altruism" last week, and didn't like it. The Faculty Council of the nation's leading football (and basketball) power voted 28 to 25 not to allow its magnificent eleven to accept a bid to the Rose Bowl, after which, as any fool could have predicted, all hell broke loose in Columbus...
...Living with a foreign family while studying at the universities of Bonn, Caen or Madrid during the junior year's fall and winter quarters. No vacation, the stint involves four daily hours of classroom study, intense language training and a strong dose of cultural shock. "A college can no longer give a broad education in its little oasis," says Hicks. "We're trying to use the whole world as our campus...
...with its edge at the water's surface). The open end of the Boatbath is pulled closed; pellets of calcium hypochloride (swimming-pool chlorine) are dropped in. Thus the boat is floating in a bath of chlorinated water, which inhibits the growth of both barnacles and grass. A dose of four pellets is enough to keep a 29-ft. hull growth-free for at least one month, provided that the Boatbath is not opened...