Word: got
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movement got its start last year when portly Dr. Teiji Ugai, 63, president of Shizuoka Pharmaceutical College, was worrying over reports that the tea plant avidly takes up strontium, including radioactive strontium 90 (TIME, Oct. 27) and that port of New York authorities had detected radioactivity in Japanese tea. Shizuoka prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, grows more than half Japan's tea, and the industry was already ailing before radiation sickness...
...that strontium, instead of being deposited in the bones to do long-term damage, might be eliminated from the human system if there was enough tannic acid present. It worked in Dr. Ugai's laboratory, where mice stored up 30% less strontium in their bones when they also got tannic acid. Then he found that a standard brew of green or black tea worked like a weak solution of tannic acid...
...Cooper-Climax is the product of a small British company that grew out of a garage started in 1919 by Charles Newton Cooper in Surbiton, eleven miles southwest of London. After World War II, Cooper and his son John, an intense, black-haired designer-engineer, got the speed bug and set out to develop a small, cheap racing car powered by a motorcycle engine. Gradually the cars grew faster, but they still used largely hand-me-down engines. At one point the Coopers used a four-cylinder Coventry Climax engine originally designed to pump water for fire fighters. Rebored...
...first pragmatist," and he believed that the educator "establishes the productive relation of knowledge to life." She put her theories to the pragmatic test by founding a school in Piraeus where for three years orphan boys who had failed their entrance exams for the old-style classical high schools got the new, "harmonized" course of studies. When her students did better on their physics exams after three years than the traditionally educated students did after six, government officials were impressed. Last spring Dr. Antonakaki's draft bill for school reform was put forward by the Education Minister with Premier...
There is nothing-and nobody-left for Kirk Douglas to shoot down but his old friend, in a fair draw. Justice done, he hops the last train from Gun Hill. As his late friend's tart (Carolyn Jones) remarks: "Ya gotta admire someone who's got that much guts...