Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sized watch from under his black robe. The witness looked glassily out the window. Almost at once she said a minute was up. The judge had timed it at eight seconds. The court took judicial notice that it was less than 15 seconds. It also noticed that workers walked faster leaving work than going...
...prove pregnancy in its early stages, obstetricians generally use a simple urine test. In the Aschheim-Zondek test, they inject a female mouse with a urine specimen; in the Friedman test (faster and easier to read), a virgin doe rabbit gets the injection. If the patient is pregnant, hormones in the urine produce easily detectable changes in the animal's ovaries. The Friedman test, which takes two days to complete, can spot pregnancy with 98% accuracy* ten days after the first missed period...
Last week, a University of California researcher reported that he had discovered a new blood test for pregnancy. Dr. Ernest W. Page, an obstetrics professor, claimed that his new test had three important advantages: 1) it is faster; 2) it can determine the date of conception within a five-day margin of error, thus forecasting more accurately when the baby will be born; and 3) it provides a continuous check throughout pregnancy on whether the fetus is still alive...
Before the game was two minutes old, he was on his feet, claiming that the opposition had fouled, bellowing to one of his own boys that he'd be "sold to Louisville" (banished to the bench). He kept repeating one word-"faster"-to a team that was already whizzing past Maine. Maine tumbled, 99-66, and Rhode Island's remarkable scoring record rose to a dizzy 96.4 per game. Before the week was out, Connecticut became victim No. 8, by a score...
Texts are coming in at the present time faster than at any other time since the end of the war, Coop sources disclosed. Phillips Books Store predicted, however, that supply would not meet demand for at least another year and a half