Word: hazardously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Best Friends. In Jacksonville, Fla., city commissioners approved Hinton Z. Miller's resignation from his job as electric meter reader, on his showing that "since Oct. 18, he has suffered four dog bites, and does not believe he can stand the mental hazard of his occupation...
...World War I, U.S. submarines were mainly engaged in rather uneventful patrol work. Their greatest hazard: dodging attacks by friendly destroyers and aircraft...
...Short View. In Appleton, Wis., police ordered the Junior Chamber of Commerce to take down its accident Scoreboard which featured red and green lights, on the ground that it was a traffic hazard...
...last week's Nature magazine, R. Hanbury Brown and C. Hazard of Britain's University of Manchester announced that they had detected radio stars in M. 31, the great spiral nebula in Andromeda, 750,000 light-years from the earth. They did the job with the largest radio telescope (a trellis-like "dish" of wires) at Jodrell Bank Experimental Station south of Manchester. Normally this telescope points upward, receiving radio waves from a narrow "beam" directly overhead. If the mast at the center is swung 14° to one side, the telescope points, in effect, toward the Andromeda...
Calling penicillin "an allergic hazard," Captain Robert L. Gilman reported that reactions in pre-sensitized patients are marked by "chills, fever, prostration, arthritic symptoms and shock." Recovery takes a long time, and there may be serious relapses. The ultimate absurdity, according to Oilman: using penicillin to treat vague complaints when the patient is actually suffering from a reaction to penicillin itself...