Word: safes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blood plasma pooled from many donors can be rendered free of the dangerous hepatitis virus if kept at room temperature for six months. University of Cincinnati researchers reported in the A.M.A. Journal after a four-year study. The finding means that plasma can safely be given promptly to battle casualties or accident victims. Also, since the plasma can be kept indefinitely, much blood and plasma now wasted can be put to use. Still not known: how to make whole blood safe from hepatitis virus...
...Civil War as the noblest war-one fought on sheer principle. Even Civil War buffs who know the last cock plume in the "shapos" at Bull Run will be moved by Churchill's brief epilogue to Gettysburg: "When that morning came, Lee, after a cruel night march, was safe on the other side of the river. He carried with him his wounded and his prisoners. He had lost only five guns...
...TIME, Feb. 14, 1944), which had been killing cattle. It is still widely used for long-term treatment of thrombosis patients, because it can be given handily by mouth. But the Wisconsin labs have synthesized more than 100 related substances, and one of these, Link suggested, would make a safe and deadly rat poison. He was right. Named warfarin,* it is usually applied to bait grain. Unsuspecting rats keep on eating it, eventually die of internal bleeding. In the U.S., said Link last week, 70,000 tons of warfarin-poisoned bait have been used without a single human death...
...expedition's troubles were almost over. Hillary had covered the route before, and had marked a safe passage through most of the crevasses...
...title safe for another season, Eugenio was still not satisfied. Last week more snow was shoveled onto the bob run before the four-man sleds started their breakneck slides, and Eugenic drew No. i starting position. This meant that there would be no front runners to pack the course. So Eugenio. a hotelkeeper's son from Dobbiaco in the Dolomites, decided on direct action. The night before the four-man competition started, he collected four shovels, rounded up his teammates and drove...