Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...croup kettles. They generate a "superheated Aerosol," a mist containing minute droplets of 15% salt solution and 20% propylene glycol (a wetting agent) at 125° F. The patient inhales this hot fog for half an hour. The salt solution draws out fluid from bronchial cells and from the myriad tiny air-exchange cells (alveoli) in his lungs. The wetting agent helps bring out more fluid that contains cells. The patient coughs this up. When the substance is put under the microscope, an expert cancer detective can spot abnormal cells that indicate the beginnings of cancer and the need...
From the heavens around, above and below -blue-black except for the myriad brilliant pinpoints of nontwinkling stars, the glow of the mist-shrouded earth and the hard white disk of the sun -invisible, cosmic radiation particles pierce the space capsule -and riddle the pilot -harmfully or harmlessly, who knows? By then the space traveler is weightless -an unearthly state in which he may do himself injury with normal movements of his own muscles. He cannot smoke because of fire and explosion hazards; the cabin pressure is so low that he cannot even whistle to keep up his courage...
Today's physicists, bursting open the atom's nucleus to find myriad minute particles, are right back where it all started. Using giant accelerators such as the Berkeley bevatron, they can measure the results of events inside the nucleus, but not all of it makes sense. Where is harmony...
...appears that the real issue of the Kohler strike in Sheboygan, Wis. [March 17] is finally coming to light. Does a man still possess the right to manage his own business, or must he and his management become hog-tied in the pull of the myriad strings that encumber thousands of businesses today and terminate in the executive offices of the labor trust? Unions are wielding much more power today than they should be wielding...
...Sukarno," he said. "I want to express my gratitude to God Almighty that I have been saved from assassination. I urge calm and intensified national security. Let us stick together in our grief. May God protect us all." This done, Sukarno set out to discover who among his myriad enemies had tried to kill...