Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They performed their experiments on rats fed on a low-iron diet which limited ferritin formation. The ferritin synthesis was triggered by injecting colloidal iron oxide, and its five and a half minute development traced with radioactive amino acids...
...Low Dudgeon...
...reported that Lady Beatty spatted with Sinatra and "drove off in a Huff [Nov. 10]." It was not a Huff, but a Dudgeon. It is easy to understand how this mistake was made. It was not one of the old-model high Dudgeons, but one of the new low ones, which are frequently mistaken for Huffs, particularly when there is any fog about. I am quite sure of the facts in this matter, as I happened to be driving by in my 1958 Dilemma at the time...
...nuclear tests-more or less tamped down by the President's decision last August to stop tests for one year-fanned into new flame. The Atomic Energy Commission and the Pentagon, convinced that prolonged test suspension would play fast and loose with U.S. military posture, argued for resuming low-fallout tests. And last week the advocates of full test suspension, centered in President Eisenhower's Science Advisory Committee under M.I.T.'s James Rhyne Killian, loosed a bitter counterattack...
...low-ceilinged, fluorescent-lit basement room in Sever Hall stands a row of machines which may someday supply such efficiency. They are updated models, constructed by Professor Skinner, of the teaching machines devised in the '20's by the inventor Sidney L. Pressey. The teaching machines facilitate automatic testing of information and intelligence...