Word: portions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kentucky, Rowan found Negroes attending universities with whites, and though some students protested, their professors approved. Concluded Rowan: "A dying generation of the Old South will not give [segregation] up without bitterness. A misled portion of the new generation will not relinquish segregation without a battle . . . But it is evident that soon-very soon-segregation will vanish...
...crisis stages of the disease. By X-rays and study of the growth of a child's normal leg, orthopedists can tell how long the stunted leg will be when it stops its retarded growth. They operate on the good leg when it reaches this length, removing a portion of the bone so that it will stop growing. When the afflicted leg has grown as much as it can, both legs will be the same length, enabling the child to walk almost as easily as a normal person...
...board wrote a firm review: "In this country where we enjoy the priceless heritage of religious freedom, the law recognizes that men and women of all faiths respect the religious beliefs held by others. The mockery or profaning of these beliefs that are sacred to any portion of our citizenship is abhorrent to the laws of this great state. . . This picture takes the concept so sacred to them. . . and associates it with drunkenness, seduction, mockery and lewdness...
...simplest way is to administer dilute salt or glucose solution by vein. But the effect lasts only a short time. Blood plasma, the clear portion of human blood, is better. It contains protein molecules of a definite size and shape that keep it from leaking out of the blood vessels. An emergency plasma substitute needs some harmless substance with the same sort of molecules. Several such substances, including gelatin, Dextran (a complex sugarlike compound) and PVP (polyvinyl pyrrolidone), a synthetic made from acetylene, do the job to some extent, but none is both plentiful and entirely satisfactory. Okra for Shock...
Operations to separate joined twins are rarely successful. A recent attempt, on Canadian Brenda and Beverley Townsend last May (TIME, May 22), ended in death for both babies when surgeons found that a portion of the heart of each extended into the chest cavity of her sister...