Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Further to rule out the possibility of concurrent cancer, the diagnostician inserts a sigmoidoscope-a metal tube, 10 in. long, with a light at the end-through the rectum and examines the lower sigmoid colon visually. Now being refined are more elaborate techniques for washing out the colon, then flushing it with a solution to pick up stray cancer cells which can be identified on a Papanicolaou smear under the microscope...
...primary schools recently heeded the Central Committee's directive that "the future direction is for schools to run factories and farms, and for factories and agricultural cooperatives to establish schools." They banded together, built the "Red Scarf" steel and iron factory, now claim production of 40 tons of metal daily. To ask that summer vacations be spent vacationing is "a decadent viewpoint ... It should be known that after spending a busy period of time in study, taking up manual work over a short period is good relaxation...
...grew up in wonderment on an Ohio farm. "Why," he asked, peering nearsightedly out of his mother's kitchen window, "can I see through a pane of glass?" "What," he asked, "is magnetism? I would like to know how a magnet reaches out and pulls a piece of metal to it." Charlie Kettering was not satisfied with merely asking the questions: all his life he probed for the answers with his pliers, his screw driver, his wrench-and his insatiably curious mind...
...place as head of the General Motors Research Corp., a vice president's title, a seat on the G.M. board and a fortune estimated at $33 million. For the next 48 years he kept probing, testing-often failing. But his successes included quick-drying paint, chrome metal, ethyl gasoline, a two-cycle diesel engine for locomotives-and more than 100 others...
Divorced. Dan Topping, 47, co-owner (with Del Webb) of the New York Yankees, millionaire grandson of Metal Magnate Daniel Gray Reid (American Can Co.), onetime husband of Cinemactress Arline Judge,* Skater Sonja Henie and others; and Alice Lowthers Topping, 30, onetime Manhattan model; after six years of marriage, two children; in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico...