Word: safer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pearce took tryparsamide to the Belgian Congo in 1920. At an experiment station in Leopoldville, she tried it on scores of suffering natives, found it both safer and far more effective than atoxyl. In the earlier stages of sleeping sickness, it can work a complete cure...
...form of trypsin. The laymen, and most doctors, will get none. Actually, more than 40 research groups have already worked with trypsin, and none has had as much success as Dr. Innerfield in dissolving clots. Some agree that it cuts down inflammation, but so do other things which are safer. The research will go on, and some day the contradictions will be resolved. Meanwhile, the dawn of the age of enzymes is delayed by clouds of doubt...
...mile-high walls of the awesome Royal Gorge, and out again. Only a daring Swiss pair finished; most others dropped out short of the gorge, where capsized boatmen, flanked by sheer rock palisades, have little choice but to sink or be swept, dead or alive, through the canyon. Though .safer, the present shorter course is still a grim ordeal by white water, spiced by three major rapids threatening upsets and death to even the best boatmen...
...resume. (The whole operation took 4½ hours.) The sheriff's brain was never threatened, as it received its normal blood supply from a higher-branching artery. And the interruption in blood flow did not even damage his kidneys. This, said the doctors, means that the operation is safer and can be done more easily than might have been expected...
Flying a Canadian-built F-86 Sabre jet, Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran whooshed to another pair of speed records over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. After clocking 590.273 m.p.h. around a 12-pylon, 500-kilometer course and 670 m.p.h. in a straight 15-kilometer dash, Jacqueline pronounced the Sabre a safer plane, and easier to fly, than the prop-driven fighters of World...