Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...naked eye the sun seems a smooth, bright disk. But astronomers have long known that its face is mottled with hot clouds of hydrogen gas, which seem to be the source of some of the radiation that periodically disrupts radio communication, and may have an important effect on the earth's weather. The clouds give off ultraviolet rays on the so-called Lyman-alpha line of the spectrum, midway between visible light and X rays. Since these rays are absorbed by the earth's atmosphere long before they can reach the ground, no earthbound camera has ever been...
...marrow transplants worked in these cases after so many failures? Dr. Jammet had taken care to match the donors' blood by ten factors (most transfusion matching covers only two), had even picked men of the same eye and hair color and body build. Beyond that, he could only guess. Perhaps it was because his patients had been healthy before the accident, then had suddenly received such a whopping jolt of radiation that it could not fail to knock out their marrow function-including antibody formation. Frozen marrow keeps for at least six months; if it can be kept longer...
Beat of the Year. Then came Expressen. Nycop hired Sweden's best young newsmen (one impoverished reporter got a set of false teeth as an inducement), gave them lessons in writing simple Swedish (which is not at all simple). He kept his sharp eye out for the big news beat, and on May 7, 1945 he found the biggest of the year-the surrender of Germany, broadcast by Grand Admiral Doenitz and picked up by Expressen's radio monitors. Nycop had been hopefully holding his presses for the news, now says that his Expressen became the world...
...encourage private investment abroad? Last year the State Department commissioned Ralph I. Straus, a director of his family's R. H. Macy & Co. and an economist who served ably with the Economic Cooperation Administration, to study the situation with an eye to formulating a new Government policy. Last week, after distilling answers from questionnaires sent to 955 key U.S. businessmen, Straus issued a report that the State Department heartily endorsed as "a new and fresh look" at the problem...
National City? It did not even bat an eye. Said the bank: "We will continue to publish any article that bears on the economic conditions of the country...