Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...water supply experts from all over the U.S. There is no reason to get panicky, the AEC said in its best scientific manner, but the U.S. must realize that the use of radioactive substances is increasing rapidly. Public health authorities must familiarize themselves with radioactivity as a regular problem. In the curriculum of the atomic age, said AEC Chairman David E. Lilienthal, radiation "has become a kind of fourth...
...problem is not a simple one. For instance, many water creatures, from bacteria to mollusks and fish, have the bad habit of concentrating certain elements, including their radioactive isotopes, in their bodies. They are not damaged by them, but the man who eats them may not fare as well. Fish market inspectors of the future may have to deal with shipments of "hot" clams. So far, the AEC has not recommended Geiger counters for the family refrigerator...
...find that the publisher gladly paid up. Doyle became rich on Holmes-and sick to death of him. When doctors told him that his young wife would die of tuberculosis in a few months, he went to Switzerland with her. Earlier that year he had written The Final Problem, in which he drowned Holmes in a waterfall. The consequence was one of the bitterest, most ironic episodes in his life: as he sat beside his stricken wife, enraged readers showered him with savage letters, and mourned the dead Holmes by wearing crepe hatbands. Mrs. Doyle improved for a time...
...letters with Albert Einstein on the curvature of the universe. When the Book-of-the-Month Club picked Gunther's then unfinished Inside U.S.A. (written largely during the costly attempts to save Johnny's life), he tried to cheer his father with, "Well, that solves the financial problem...
...south, landed is Briggs Cage Saturday and dropped a few hints to the assembled mob of high school coaches, H.A.A. moguls and passers-by on the care and feeding of future stars. The upshot of the session was the startling intelligence that each ballplayer is an individual problem and must be treated as such by his coach...