Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kidney tissue. Half a dozen cynom-olgus monkeys get shots (in the arms) ten times as potent as a human child receives. And twelve rhesus monkeys are injected, with the vaccine going into the nervous system-some directly into the brain itself. Even if these monkeys fail to get sick, they must be killed (painlessly by ether) after a month and their nerve tissues are examined minutely...
...volunteers (between the ages of 21 and 30), 26 got a minute droplet of a single strain of polio virus in a teaspoon-ul of milk. The human guinea pigs proved even more susceptible than the chimpanzees to the desired kind of infection. They did not get sick in any apparent way Yet the virus multiplied in their digestive tracts, boosted their antibody levels and was excreted in the stools for one to twelve weeks. It was in this connection Dr. Sabin reported his only setback...
Wills Gets Sick...
...only other scoring came in the eighth, when three unearned runs tallied. After Botsford reached base on an error, he scored as Jim Rahal, substituting for a sick Don Butters at third, singled to left. Two more runs crossed the plate on MacDonald's double, and back to back singles by Hoffman and Simourian...
...Easter eve 1945, a sick but triumphant actress stepped into her dressing room in Manhattan's Playhouse theater. This opening night of The Glass Menagerie had proved what many critics and theatergoers had long believed: that Laurette Taylor was one of America's great actresses. Among the flowers and the telegrams stood a bottle of Scotch, the gift of testy Critic George Jean Nathan. It was a special kind of a tribute, and Laurette understood. She wired: "Thanks for the vote of confidence...