Word: pinpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statistical fact that heavy cigarette smokers are more likely to die of lung cancer than are nonsmokers has been known for years, but no one has yet been able to pinpoint the process by which smoking exerts its lethal effect. That the death rate from cancer of the bladder is more than three times as high for smokers as for nonsmokers has been recognized more recently, and it has seemed even more difficult to explain. Yet, ironically, it is the hard to explain bladder cancers that have backed up statistics by yielding the first biochemical evidence that smoking...
Died. Harry Stuhldreher, 63, quarterback of Notre Dame's famed Four Horsemen backfield, the 5 ft. 7 in. "little general" whose pinpoint passes, shrewd field tactics and shin-splitting blocks led the Fighting Irish to 27 victories in 30 games from 1922 to 1924, and won for him a place on Walter Camp's 1924 All-America team-the only one of the four to make it; of acute pancreatitis; in Pittsburgh. Stuhldreher was less successful as a coach, winning only 45 while losing 62 in 13 years at the University of Wisconsin, finally left...
...four-by-four brace has been applied to the inside of the passageway to help pinpoint the source of the trouble...
Even though the Crimson outgained Yale on the ground, 147 yards to 114, Humphrey's pinpoint passing gave the Elis the lead in total offense with 238 yards to Harvard's 224. The victory boosts Yale's record for the season to five wins and one loss, while Harvard's mark is evened off at four wins and four defeats. Yale's only setback was at the hands of Princeton last week. The Tigers edged the Bulldogs, 7-6, only a week after losing to the Harvard...
...vast number of electrons that ionize a mass of air and turn it into a radio wave reflector. This air mass shows up on long-distance radars, and it may distort radio waves coming from beyond it. A combination of all these long-distance methods of measurement can pinpoint the explosion accurately and give a good idea of its strength...