Word: mg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reunited. Two days later, after commencement, commissioning, and a full-dress, crossed-swords wedding at Denver's Christ the King Roman Catholic Church, the couple began their honeymoon. Last week, driving through southwest Colorado toward New Mexico on Colorado Highway 172, Barnwell lost control of his new, red MG roadster. The car overturned, throwing both Barbara Ann and her husband clear. "I'm O.K.," Lieut. Lee Barnwell groggily told a state trooper. "Take care of my wife." The trooper looked down at Barbara Ann, dead on the ground. Said he softly: "She's in good hands...
Finally isolated, it turned out to be a yellowish, fatty substance with a subtle, not unpleasant odor of leather. Study of its chemical structure revealed a relatively simple formula: C10H30O- technically an alcohol. The million cocoons had yielded only a barely visible 1.6 mg...
...Afternoon Concert. Hartman--Symphony #6 (D) DL 9861; Handoshkin--Var. on Theme (Mon) 2019; Benevoli--Hymn to St. Rupert (E) LC 3035; Berkeley--Trio (W) Wn 18515; Weber--Piano Concerto #1 (V) VRY 8150; Ravel--Violin Sonata (M) Mg. 50089; Ditterskorf--Concerto for Violin and Double Bass (HSLP) Hayd. 9052; Dvorak--Quintet in G Major...
Society's troubles with amphetamine go back almost 20 years to a time when the most popular inhaler contained Benzedrine (Smith, Kline, & French Laboratories' trade name for one form of amphetamine). Prison wardens complained that accordion-pleated paper fillers loaded with 250 mg. of amphetamine (15 times the average daily dose a doctor would prescribe for reducing or lethargic patients) were being smuggled to convicts, who chewed them and went on violent rampages. Then S.K.F. chemists found a better decongestant, propylhexedrine (not an amphetamine or a stimulant), to put in inhalers, and changed the name to Benze-drex...
...wanted to expose mosquito larvae to radiation. So he had gone to the hospital and taken a 10-mg. radium needle. At home he opened it, expecting to find a single piece of radium. Instead, out came a powder that spilled over his hands...