Word: loop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Outside Loop. Airmen learned years ago that the pull of positive Gs can cause blackout because it drives the blood from the head down into the body (TIME...
...impossible to create G-free conditions within the pull of earth's gravity, but military pilots have found a way to get a partial sub-gravity effect, says Major Simons. By flying in a shallow outside loop, they are lifted lightly out of their seats and can get the effect of fractional gravity for periods of 15 to 20 seconds...
...turned to private cars, city traffic jammed up tighter, buses moved more slowly. Slower speeds forced companies to buy more equipment and hire extra drivers to meet schedules; thus the transit companies them selves helped to make traffic still worse. (A Chicago cable car in the 1890s crossed the Loop only 50 seconds slower than a $20,000, 200-h.p. bus does today...
Unseen Magic. Dr. Fleming scraped off some of the mold with a loop of platinum wire and grew the stuff by itself. In the fluid in which it multiplied was a something that killed several kinds of microbes. The mold was a variety of penicillium, and Fleming called the unseen but magical substance penicillin. He wrote about it in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology. One man paid close heed: Chemist Harold Raistrick extracted a crude form of penicillin, but was advised by senior doctors that it had no future as a medicine for humans-it was too unstable. Fleming...
...Using piano wire bought from a model-airplane shop, two U.C.L.A. surgeons have developed an operation for opening thigh arteries clogged by cholesterol in a common form of arteriosclerosis. A wire loop passed through a length of the artery strips out the inner wall with its fatty deposits...