Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Probably the toughest problem of all is how to keep from killing the crew by radiation. As Dr. Kalitinsky puts it: "The radiation intensities encountered in nuclear reactors must be reduced by factors of many billion before they are safe for the human organism...
Last week Charles A. McPheeters, of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, told a little about one such device now under development: a gadget that watches stars like a human navigator and steers the missile by them. It identifies the proper stars (from one to three) by measuring their brightness or their "color temperature." Then, guided by their relation to one another or to the center of the earth, it can keep the missile on its predetermined course...
...average of over 100 cosmic particles of some sort pass through every human head every minute, according to Millikan, but they cannot be felt. Elaborate special apparatus is needed to observe them. Some scientists work with stacks of Geiger tubes, which register each particle that passes through them. Others use special photographic plates, where certain particles leave microscopic tracks of silver in the sensitive emulsion. The best instrument, and the hardest to use, is the Wilson cloud chamber, where the particles make visible tracks of white condensed moisture...
London's famed Sadler's Wells company was putting on a new ballet. The orchestra struck up Haydn's cheerful "Clock" Symphony. Onstage, the audience saw a twelve-foot grandfather clock with human hands and a swinging pendulum of dancers' legs. But to go with Haydn's rippling music, Choreographer Leonide Massine had scraped up a trivial love story between an insect princess and a human clockmaker, and set it dancing with steps that were largely borrowings from a dozen Massine ballets. About all that made the evening enjoyable, particularly...
...They used two drugs which worked equally well: toluidine blue, a tissue stain, and protamine sulfate, a protein compound. The doctors used the drugs on dogs that had fatal doses of X rays, and prolonged the dogs' lives 26 days. The drugs might, they think, be useful on human victims of radiation sickness...