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Word: fifteens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifteen years ago, Yale Anatomist Harold Saxton Burr and New York University Gynecologist Louis Langman began to experiment with electrical tests for cancer. They had Yale Physicist Cecil T. Lane build a special microvoltmeter, which measures electrical potentials in microvolts (one-millionth of a volt). Last week, Researchers Burr and Langman announced preliminary results in diagnosing* cancer of the female genital tract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Anti-Social Cells | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...tumbling, there are five different groups of them doing then different acts. And there are aerial ballets and aerial adagio acts and aerial this and aerial that any flying trapezes. And there are small automobiles full of great numbers of large clowns. And no matter what is happening, fifteen other things are happening at the same time...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: The Circusgoer | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

...Fifteen months of protest, reports, and student investigations bear fruit for Harvard geography today when a special committee from the faculty meets with Provost Buck to "study the place of geography at Harvard in all its aspects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Committee to Sift Geography Meets Today | 5/11/1949 | See Source »

...ACTH. The results were dramatic but, like the results of earlier work, they were fleeting. Fifteen patients, some unable to walk, showed great improvement soon after injections of large doses of Compound E (as much as 100 milligrams a day). The first patient was a woman who was barely able to get out of bed. By the third day she was walking with only a slight limp; a week later, pain and muscular stiffness had almost disappeared. But improvement ended when the drug was stopped. After varying periods without the drug, the patients were back where they started. Two other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For Arthritis | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...Crimson team has been partially crippled this week by the loss of four crucial players out of the starting fifteen. Three-quarter basks Sam Adams and Holly French are out with a bad shoulder and multiple bruises respectively, lineman Ed Davis has a bad back, and Peter Manning-Smith is scheduled to address the International Rotarians at game time. Their places will be taken by Ernie Mitchell, Joe Mazum, Jack Worrall, and John Emerson...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Crippled Ruggers Meet MIT Today | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

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