Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make his 5,000-bbl. dividend go up further, he mixed the whisky with alcohol made from potatoes purchased from Government sur pluses. The blend was sold to the wartime whisky-parched public and to other distillers. To produce the alcohol, he began buying distilleries, ended up with eleven, and sold them in 1956, winding up with a total take of well over $10 million...
...labeling on two long-acting sulfa drugs marketed by three firms,* "to warn against rare cases of a severe and sometimes fatal side effect," a blistering and ulceration known as the Stevens-Johnson syndrome. There have been 81 reported U.S. cases "associated" with the drugs, with 16 deaths, eleven among children. There have been relatively fewer such cases and no U.S. deaths ascribed to the short-acting sulfas, which have to be taken four, to six times a day. FDA "hawks," who favor drastic action, wanted to pull the long-acting sulfas off the market on the grounds that...
Today 35 of the school's 91 faculty members hold joint appointments with other Harvard faculties, and eleven other members are also officials of public and independent schools in the Boston area. The aim has been to draw the practicing educator, the pedagogical scholar, the historian, the philosopher and the social scientist together in an ever broadening concept of what to teach the school's 800 students. Ever since Harvard started its Master of Arts in Teaching degree in 1936, the emphasis has been on fulltime graduate study (as compared with the customary "summer school" advancement) in preparing...
...major killer of U.S. children aged one to 14 is so rare in Africa that it would seem to have little in common with Burkitt's lymphoma, a cancer of the jaw that is prevalent among children in tropical Africa. Yet last week top researchers from eleven countries journeyed to Kampala, the capital of Uganda, to pool their knowledge of both diseases. Some temperate-zone doctors suspect that both cancers may be caused by viruses, and they hoped, by studying the tropical lymphoma, to pick up tips on the "blood cancer" they call leukemia...
...beyond the plug, deprived of nourishing blood and oxygen, lost its elastic muscularity, disrupted the heart's delicate electrical-conduction system, and eventually stopped working. In some cases the victims of these occlusions were dead even before their blood-starved heart muscle had time to do any damage. Eleven succumbed instantly or within a few minutes; ten others died within a week...