Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clearing in the Woods is no light summer fare; it is a "difficult" play, and demands unflagging concentration. The work is highly unorthodox: there is no real plot in the usual sense of the word; and the element of time is employed in a fluid and daring...
...with gadgets that look like babies' croup kettles. They generate a "superheated Aerosol," a mist containing minute droplets of 15% salt solution and 20% propylene glycol (a wetting agent) at 125° F. The patient inhales this hot fog for half an hour. The salt solution draws out fluid from bronchial cells and from the myriad tiny air-exchange cells (alveoli) in his lungs. The wetting agent helps bring out more fluid that contains cells. The patient coughs this up. When the substance is put under the microscope, an expert cancer detective can spot abnormal cells that indicate...
...Keep It Fluid. While it was changjng its pace, Raytheon really went after military contracts, now does 80% of its business with the Government. It is the only U.S. electronics firm with prime contracts for two mass-production missiles (the Army's ground-to-air Hawk and the Navy's air-to-air Sparrow III), is subcontractor for electronic devices for twelve other missiles and for equipment for the 6-52 and the 6-58. It is also manufacturing transistors, and their successor spa-cistors, for everything from field radios to satellite innards, hopes to raise...
Milky Way. Near Baraga, Mich., during a demonstration of his art, U.S. Forest Service Pilot Milton Nelson missed his target, splashed 50 gallons of whey-colored fire-retarding fluid on 150 picnicking forestry and conservation officials...
Epicures. In Milwaukee, records were published showing that the city's children last year swallowed gunbore cleaner, soldering flux, reducing pills, battery acid, furniture polish, lighter fluid, airplane glue, fertilizer, narcotics, tranquilizers, rubbing alcohol, hormones, after-shave lotion, camphorated oil, motor oil, iodine, toilet cleaners, laundry bleach, chromium polish, gasoline, kerosene, benzene, paint, wood alcohol, linseed oil, varnish, paint thinner, pesticides, cologne, toilet water...