Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several other radioisotopes offer marked advantages in treating some of the less dramatic (and usually nonfatal) forms of cancer. Example: blotting paper soaks up a solution containing phosphorus-32; the paper can then be cut to the exact shape of a skin cancer and held in place with adhesive tape. In a few days the cancer is arrested. Strontium-go, on the end of a probe, has been found to be even better than phosphorus-32 for treating malignant growths...
Attempted robbery is an exact description of what took place in the United States Senate last Wednesday. By a vote of 50-35 the lawmakers took a resource that belongs to the whole country and bestowed it on three states. The resource was our oil-rich submerged coastal lands; the booty was large enough to make the annual Rivers and Harbors pork barrel look like a teacup...
Were One Bright Day a novel, the exact word for it would be "readable." The audience is always interested in what will happen next, and apathetic to the whole thing next morning. Playwright Miller has carefully appraised his theme for what it is worth as theater. He has decided just how much humor may prove of use; has decided, less soundly, just how much romance; and has got his play a nice smooth production. He is more shrewd than gifted; and not the first playwright who, while dramatizing the cleavage between ethics and economics on the stage, has managed...
...blanks, exact duplicates of the earlier ones except for the absence of the disguised code numbers, asked questions concerning the income of the student's family, his dress habits, and his campus possessions. The numbers were stamped on with white ink on the reverse side of the polls and were barely visible in daylight...
...started to collect a library when still in grade school, and with fanatic neatness insisted that the books must always be kept in exact order. His first pupil was his younger sister Carolyn. The first lesson was an early Adlerian version of evolution. Mortimer declared: "You ought to know the facts of life. First there are fish, then come monkeys, and then little girls. Mother will tell you the rest...