Word: gram
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breathed in by industrialized Western man, declared Dr. Wilhelm Hueper of the U.S. National Cancer Institute. Factory soot, arsenical dust, engine-exhaust fumes all contain such dangerous particles. In one N.C.I. survey of ten U.S. cities, tars were filtered out of the air, and even in tiny doses (.05 gram) they were found to cause skin cancer in laboratory mice...
...standard chore in biological laboratories is weighing the experimental animals (e.g., mice and guinea pigs) to record their rate of growth. Biologist David Marshall Prescott, 27, of the University of California does this chore too, but his experimental animals are amoebas, and they weigh only ten billionths of a gram each...
...took the baby and her mother to California-first to San Francisco, and then, as her money dwindled, to a shabby apartment in Los Angeles. They had a bitter struggle. Jack nearly died of pneumonia when he was four. Afterward he suffered with asthma so racking that Maggie or Gram often had to carry him pickaback upstairs...
...have done so. Century gives us WORLD--Mankind, or the public generally (as, the whole world knows it); also (as, the world worships success). Webster (Mr. Fox's authority) says, for Collective noun. Gram. A noun naming a collection or aggregate of individuals by a singular form (assembly, army, jury). When the designated collection is thought of as a whole, the noun takes a singular verb. (Mr. Fox said: "the world, by and large."). It strikes me that Mr. Fox has confounded the editorial ""we' with his many other activities and now regards himself as a collective noun, but even...
While his lectures are memorable for their humor alone, it is Nash's interest in students that has made Chemistry 2 and Natural Science 4 so popular during the past five years. Remembering his own undergraduate tussles with gram-atoms and molecular weights, he turns his sympathy for student confusion into an active program of help. Although he has an audience of several hundred, Nash frequently stops lectures to answer questions from the floor. Often he climbs on a chair in the front row to ask what is troubling a boy looking puzzled in the back of the lecture room...