Word: kins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kin to Columnist Drew Pearson...
Last week Dr. George B. Collins of the University of Rochester announced that he has developed an automatic scintillation counter with an electronic eye. Dr. Collins uses a disc of anthracene (a coal tar product that is kin to the naphthalene in mothballs). The disc gives off flashes of light when atomic particles shoot through it. Dr. Collins does nothing so crude as to watch the flashes of light with his eye and a microscope. He pipes the light through a Lucite rod into a photomultiplier tube that can count as many as 100,000 flashes a second...
...kin to Novelist James Norman Hall (Mutiny on the Bounty), who also flew for the Escadrille...
...This brought Pearson his closest brush with physical violence. In the House restaurant, Texas' Congressman Nat Patton (no kin to the general) beerily waved a knife under Pearson's nose until Maury Maverick interceded and eased Pearson out of harm...
...Another Manhattan hospital had called to say that some parents had offered the corneas of their dead child so that another person might see. The Red Cross would handle the delivery to the eye bank. A telegram lay on Mrs. Breckinridge's desk saying that the next of kin were offering the eyes of a man dying in a Cincinnati hospital. Mrs. Breckinridge arranged for an airline to fly them east, carefully refrigerated in salt solution (results are best when eyes are removed an hour after death and used within three days...