Word: gram
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brazilian Dr. Lauro Sollero studies how one billionth of a gram of serotonin (a powerful, blood pressure-raising chemical isolated by Page and colleagues) makes a strip of rat uterus contract, and the ways in which serotonin and other body chemicals cancel each other's effects. Dr. James McCubbin is probing breakdowns in nerve impulses that throw blood-pressure control out of kilter. Famed Internist Willem Kolff, who invented the artificial kidney when his native Netherlands was under Nazi occupation, has developed a $14 model in a gallon can. Dr. Page himself spends two or three days a week...
Einstein's calculations filled the void, and stretched it far into the cosmos with a brief, daring equation that tripped off the tongue with the doomful simplicity of the first few notes of Beethoven's Fifth: E=mc².This meant that a mass (m) of one gram of matter contains within itself energy (E) which is the equivalent in ergs to the square of the velocity of light (c²) in centimeters per second. Einstein went on to demonstrate mathematically that there can be no absolute measure of time or space because all spatial bodies...
...short form" will soon go out to WHO representatives in Africa, Asia and Latin America. As the doctors wound up their conference last week, Denmark's H. C. Gram thanked their Paris hosts in a speech based on the old, long list: Paris, he said, "saved us from E933" (hunger, thirst and exposure), so that in future, delegates would "instantly suppress 310" (anxiety) when called on to return to Paris. Not participating in the conference were Iron Curtain doctors, who abandoned WHO in 1949, possibly embarrassed by E985 on the list (execution...
...village level worker, or "gram sevak," has the all-important job of securing the support and confidence of the village. Generally he is a young boy just out of high school, who has completed six months at a special training center. Sincerely dedicated, these young Indians know that the future of village India is largely in their hands...
...replace two of their big passenger vessels (easily converted to troop ships) at a cost of $95 million, of which the lines will pay 53% American President Lines will pay 85% of $65.8 million to be spent for eight new passenger ships and freighters, the biggest such pro gram under the present Merchant Marine Act. For its part, the Navy, which needs 19 high-speed tankers, will build four itself at a cost of $30 million; the rest will be built privately for lease to the Navy...