Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After two days the Navy took them all to Kwajalein Island and made vigorous efforts to decontaminate them. By this time their first symptoms were gone. Calculations showed that they had received about 175 roentgens of radiation, which is less than half of a deadly dose (400 R). But they were watched carefully...
...operation was a pilot program to see if the method would work. This summer the Authority engineers will dose the river more liberally to trace the travels of its silt. Meanwhile, the Hydraulic Research Establishment is trying radioactive scandium-glass on Britain's beaches to find out how they get eroded away...
Also on its outside experts' advice, the PHS advised local authorities to go ahead giving second shots all through the polio season, because the "slight immunity resulting from the first dose of vaccine will most likely provide protection against any [harmful] effect." Yet even while the PHS talked of ways and means to continue the shots, and while parents were still being urged to let children be vaccinated, experts kept showing serious doubts as to the vaccine's safety under present testing procedures...
...subsequent indignities after getting in (coolie hats, false noses, etc.), adjustment to the fact that class attendance is optional and that exams are run by the honor system. But there were also other matters-e.g., calculus, molecular physics, basic graphics, inorganic chemistry, as well as a big dose of English literature and European history. Though careful not to appear to be "snakes" (grinds). Supple and Andelin found themselves working a straight 80-hour week. Says Supple: "That first term you don't know where you are. You've got a few physics problems to work out, about...
...Hell with Philosophy." Yet he showed intestinal fortitude at the rarest moments. When The Seagull flopped miserably on its St. Petersburg opening, Chekhov went home, "gave myself a dose of castor oil, took a cold bath-and now I wouldn't even mind doing another play." When the 37-year-old Chekhov collapsed from a tuberculous attack in 1897, the great Tolstoy stormed past the nurses to soothe the patient with bedside chitchat, but stayed on to argue that a work of art only fulfilled its function if an uneducated peasant could understand it. By the time Tolstoy left...