Word: nc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...save lives threatened by cancer than Greek-born Dr. George N. Papanicolaou. 76, of Cornell University Medical College, who devised a test for cancer of the uterus and cervix by smearing mucous secretion on a glass slide and examining the stained cells under a microscope. The "Pap smear" is nc' done routinely in hundreds of U.S. laboratories, for an estimated total of 3.000,000 tests a year-most of them for healthy women wisely having regular examinations. Vast ingenuity has gone into extensions of the Pap test: aerosols to make a smoker cough up deep mucus to reveal lung...
...first U.S. Navy seaplane in 1911, became commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet in 1945 in a shake-up that indicated the increasing importance of Navy aviation; of cancer; in New York City. In 1919 Towers organized a flight of three seaplanes across the Atlantic, crash-landed his NC-3, taxied 205 miles to the Azores, got the Navy Cross after one of the planes reached Portugal safely-the first plane to cross the Atlantic...
Ohlo: 57 FF, 242SS, 299 AQ, 371 CA, LG 450, NC 582, US 596, YY 3464; Oklahoma: 14528, 2-28346; Pennsylvania: 581B3, HEL8, GC97, 138PP, 0249K, 2509P, E7689; Rhode Island: S1795, 3499, G5415, N8689; South Carolina: D130783; Texas: LM 470, AH 2234, FD 9180; Vermont: EE463; Wyoming: 858327; Virginia: 809940; Washington: S5577U
...Lowell House and Brookline, as Secretaroy; David L. Conn., as Treasurer; Laurence D. Stifel '52, of Lowll House and Shaker Heights, Ohio, as publicity director; Helmut F. Furth '52, of Dunster House and Washington, D.C., as solicitations chairman; and Daniel L. Ritchie '54, of Mower Hall and China Grove, NC., as yard chairman...