Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact, demonstrated by Canadian scientists (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953), that a substance called sex chromatin can be detected in female but not in male cells. Dr. David Serr and Geneticists Leo Sachs and Mathilde Danon of Jerusalem's Rothschild-Hadassah University Hospital reasoned that cells in the amniotic fluid, the liquid inside the sac that encloses the fetus, could be analyzed to reveal the child's sex. To get small samples of the fluid, they inserted an extremely fine hypodermic needle through the vagina and into...
With an eye to the fluid conditions of atomic warfare, the Army last week bought twelve experimental models of the Aerocycle, a one-man flying machine designed to give the infantryman more mobility than he has ever had before. Built by De Lackner Helicopters, Inc., the 200-Ib. Aerocycle is equipped with helicopter blades and powered by a 44-h.p. outboard motor mounted above pontoons which enable the pilot to set his craft down on land or water. The Aerocycle can carry 300 Ibs., has a maximum speed of 65 m.p.h. and a 150-mile range. The infantryman standing...
...Fluid Drive. In Hoboken. N.J., Bar Owner Albert W. Dreisbach was convicted of drunken driving, fined $200 despite his defense plea: "I just had my car winterized, and the fumes must have stayed on my person...
Amid a clutter of flasks and tubes, beakers and retorts in the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Researcher Dr. Albert Hoffman was doing a routine experiment when he had a common laboratory accident: somehow, he absorbed some of the fluid he was working with. He became muddled and confused. Four days later, satisfied that the offending substance was lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25), he weighed out a minute dose and took it deliberately. It struck him "like a bolt of lightning." Hoffman had to go home, but he had lost his perception of time and space, and the short bicycle ride...
...from any farmer during the harvest season. But the harvest could not wait. In the finest autumn weather in years, giant combines cut wide swaths through fields of standing wheat, spewed out rivers of top-grade grain. Commercial elevators were soon chockablock. Farmers braced old sheds to withstand the fluid pressures of loose wheat, built new barns to hold the flood, and when all the sheds were filled, piled their wheat in amber hillocks on the ground. When the harvest was in, Canada's supply of wheat on hand stood at 992 million bushels...