Word: probe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These colors, caused by minute variations in the chemical characteristics of the cells that make up living tissue, have enabled cancer researchers to probe deeper than ever before into the mysterious factors that differentiate healthy tissue from cancerous tissue...
Finally, there were operational problems. Would the ultraviolet rays and the heat kill the very substances they were trying to probe? Work proceeded slowly at first, but under Shurcliff's guidance, the experts in all the various fields fitted their individual labor together in the final coordination of the project. First use of the microscope came early this spring...
...quality movie that the trade calls a "sleeper." This particular sleeper accommodates some colorful passengers on a Chicago-Los Angeles train. A jut-jawed detective (Charles Mc-Graw) is escorting a gangster's sloe-eyed widow (Marie Windsor) to be the key witness in a grand jury crime probe. The detective's problem is to evade a couple of cold-blooded syndicate hoods who have rubbed out the detective's partner and are now bent on murdering the widow...
...sent to 674 sophomores, juniors and seniors, which received a seventy-five percent response. This, the only method open to the Council in its investigation, has two serious limitations which must be mentioned before discussing the Council's conclusions. First, if the questions are to be useful, they must probe far deeper than the usual Do you think such-and-such is 1)good 2)bad (3) type of questionnaire. The resulting questions, such as how much has G.E. "improved your ability in dealing with problems effectively and critically...?" are enough to tax even the most sensitive and perceptive student...
...forms of cancer. Example: blotting paper soaks up a solution containing phosphorus-32; the paper can then be cut to the exact shape of a skin cancer and held in place with adhesive tape. In a few days the cancer is arrested. Strontium-go, on the end of a probe, has been found to be even better than phosphorus-32 for treating malignant growths...