Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incurable and not fully understood. Through an inborn metabolic quirk, the body produces an excess of porphyrins, chemicals that are usually produced only in tiny amounts and seem somehow to be involved with the body's sensitivity to the sun. In some forms of porphyria, skin sensitivity is slight, but the victim suffers severe abdominal pains, bizarre mental disturbances, and sometimes respiratory paralysis. Mrs. Carlson suffers from a form called porphyria cutaneatarda, in which the porphyrin overproduction can be traced to an inherited liver malfunction. Doctors have studied such cases for years, but have only recently found a strong...
...using both vaccines. The doctors found that the killed virus provides 100% immunity if given in three monthly doses. It can also be used to stimulate the formation of protective antibody before a child gets a shot of the more potent live virus. In either case, side effects are slight and infrequent. The investigators gave the live virus vaccine to 296 children who had already had one dose of the killed virus, and only 15% of the subjects developed a fever; 3% got a mild rash. For those who had two doses of killed virus before getting live virus shots...
Another fine performance was turned in by Chum Azikiwe in the triple jump. Zeke captured third place behind Ohiri with a leap of 47 ft. 1/2 in., one of his best jumps of the season. A slight disappointment was the showing of sophomore Peeter Lampe in the javelin. Lampe was able to capture sixth place in a strong field, but his throw of 199 ft. 9 in. was well below his University record...
SINCE the law that proposed the new wheat plan excluded Hawaii and Alaska, farmers in those states were not eligible to vote. Wheat production in New Hampshire is so slight that no one voted there. The only states in which the plan was given the necessary two-thirds majority...
...years of work were needed to translate the meaning of the new code of sound. Dr. Esch finally decided that the length of the sounds reported the distance to the nectar supply. The pitch of the sounds and the intervals between them told its quality and quantity. Made with slight nonflying movements of wings, the sounds seemed to stimulate the watching workers to fly toward the new-found food...