Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dazzling moral debate. It tells an epic, yet hallowed and human story; it treats of divided lovers as well as a divided land. Though not the work of such a great master of stage dialogue as Shaw, the poem pretty well lends itself to stage use, has touching moments, fluid movement, big climaxes. It has also, on the whole, been well condensed...
...reported that these test-tube cultures provided a test for the presence of polio and similar viruses, it used to take a monkey a month to confirm a single diagnosis of polio. That was impractical. Many physicians relied (and still do) on a microscopic examination of a droplet of fluid taken by puncture from the patient's spinal column. In normal, healthy fluid, there are few or no cells-not more than eight to the cubic millimeter. In victims of virus diseases like polio there may be 500 cells or more. This is still only a rough & ready test...
...first defensive backfield alignment was quite fluid, with all the available defensive backs seeing action in different combinations. Two of the regulars, linebackers Ron Messer and Bob Hardy, were nursing bruises and did not participate...
...Fluid Capital. In Memphis, Goldsmith's Department Store accepted a check drawn on the "East Bank of the Mississippi...
...fertile blanket" of 11-238, the spent metal that remains when U-235 is extracted from natural uranium to make atom bombs. Through both blanket and core circulates a sodium-potassium alloy that is liquid at ordinary temperatures. This coolant carries away the heat of the nuclear reaction. The fluid metal leaves the reactor at 660° F., and produces enough steam to generate 250 kw. of power...