Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Limb. In Hackensack, N.J., Albert Kuiken, 64, filed a $10,000 damage suit against Theodore H. Mastin Sr., charged him with cutting down a tree while Kuiken was perched in the upper branches...
...Meek's opponent is Senator Paul Douglas, who last spring bet his political shirt on a depression. Economist Douglas had gone up and down Illinois, asserting that hard times had arrived and were about to get much worse. Said an Eisenhower aide: "Douglas got himself out on a limb and we're sawing...
...cause-and-effect relationship between smoking and these higher death rates, said Dr. Hammond. But, he went on, every bit of evidence so far available fits the hypothesis that it is a case of cause and effect. Sallying from their statistical sanctuary, Hammond and Horn went out on a limb: "It is our opinion that regular cigarette smoking causes an increase in death rates from [heart disease and cancer]. We now advance this as a positive theory...
...crying that the U.S. may be heading for a depression, has made the main issue of his campaign "the restoration of prosperity and substantially full employment." If the economy turns solidly upward before November, Mr. Retail will be able to saw off the Professor's self-made economic limb...
...found the perfect contraceptive-for rats. While they were fed nitrofuran compounds (chemicals obtained from oat hulls), male rats produced no spermatozoa, Dr. Warren 0. Nelson reported, but later they recovered their fertility and sired normal young. The University of Texas' Dr. Donald Duncan, edging out on a limb, said nitrofuran "could be the [human] contraceptive of the future...