Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...method of fighting malaria-commonest disease on earth-is being used to protect the residents of Delhi, India's capital, and the U.S. troops quartered there from the epidemic now raging among the 100,000,000 people of northwest India. Gangs of trained workmen go from house to house all day spraying a mixture of pyrethrum insecticide (5%) and kerosene (95%) on the walls and rafters where the night-flying mosquitoes rest. The sprayers are all lads of good caste, so no highborn Hindu will be outraged by their attentions to his residence, outhouse and cowshed, each of which...
...problem that most deeply engrosses Ornithologist Baker and others is: How does the cuckoo get the egg into the nest? This problem is posed by the fact that some wise birds build nests with obstructive entrances for the express purpose of keeping out cuckoos. The cuckoo has developed several methods for outwitting these isolationists. Cuckooists recognize a First, Second and Third Method. In the First Method the cuckoo simply squats down and lays her egg. The Second Method is somewhat more complicated, comes into play when the cuckoo is momentarily baffled by a nest built in a hollow tree...
...extremely rare Third Method, a kind of fourth dimension among cuckoo problems, that is still controversial. The Third Method is used when a cuckoo encounters a nest with a very small or tortuous entrance. Unable to squat or cling, the cuckoo flutters to the ground, lays an egg, is thought by some to swallow it, then poke her long bill and neck into the nest opening, and regurgitate...
Like most cuckooists, Ornithologist Baker does not claim ever to have witnessed the Third Method, but he believes that...
...Since it is largely the similar acid properties of the sulfa-drugs and the bacterial vitamins which confuse the bacteria, Chemists Richard O. Roblin Jr. and Paul H. Bell (of the sulfa-making American Cyanamid Co.) have developed a method of measuring the acidity of the several hundred possible sulfa-compounds and thus 'predicting their efficacy. But such predictions are complicated by other factors: some sulfa-drugs are not absorbed by the body and thus never reach the blood stream; others undergo chemical changes in the body and thus lose their powers...