Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's Sanitary Engineering Department recently recorded 1,000 times the normal radioactivity in Cambridge water. "When we put our Geiger counter to some Cambridge water," Harold A. Thomas, associate professor of Sanitary Engineering, admitted, "it sounded like a bobcat caught in the bushes...
...Medical School professor reported yesterday he has kept a human heart functioning as long as 109 hours after it stopped normal beating, through use of an electric stimulator...
...Jonas E. Salk and his colleagues were concerned, it was literally a gift. They are not getting a penny from the vaccine's manufacture (the six pharmaceutical firms making the vaccine are selling it at cost to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, but will otherwise sell for normal profit, an average $1.50 per shot). But for Dr. Salk, at least, other rewards were multiplying. Judges headed by Dr. Charles W. Mayo picked him to receive $10,000, tax free, and a gold medal awarded by the Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co. New York Republican Steven Derounian offered...
...photosynthesizing under a strong electric light. It increases when the plant is respiring in darkness. Dr. Decker's experiment: measuring what happens after the light is turned off. For seconds, he found, the leaf gave off a large amount of C02. Then the figure fell to the normal amount given off in darkness. Dr. Decker believes that photosynthesis stops when the light fails, but that the daytime respiration that accompanies photosynthesis does not stop quite so suddenly. "It is like catching the leaf," he says, "with its pants down before it can adjust to darkness." Dr. Decker...
...alumni group has been established to raise funds without cutting into the normal Law School income from alumni, Katz said, and he anticipated no difficulty in meeting the two-year deadline not by the Ford Foundation...