Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Surgical Spray. A plastic surgical dressing that can be sprayed on wounds was put on sale to physicians by Aeroplast Corp., Dayton. First developed in cooperation with the Air Force Aero Medical Laboratory for mass treatment of burns, such as in an atomic attack, the spray dressing has since been used on all types of wounds. The transparent plastic permits a check without changing the dressing, can be stripped off easily. Price...
...very abundance of modern insecticides often defeats their purpose, and trigger-happy spray gun wielders can do more harm than good. By way of example, said the University of California's A. E. Michelbacher, the practice of dousing walnut trees with DDT to control the codling moth has resulted in plagues of frosted scale and spider mites, organisms which might normally have graced a few codling moths' dinner tables...
...must be buttressed in several places. Bierweiler makes plaster supports which fit under stems, leaves, or petals wherever necessary without obstructing anything. Then, with a dentist's drill, he makes a fine hole in the plaster through which he runs a thin silver wire to tie down the delicate spray. The system is not only artistically beautiful but efficient. The plant is always turned to catch the light perfectly. While the flowers are continually being cleaned and freshened, there has been no damage from vibration despite the lumbering trucks that patrol Oxford...
...ninth round, Bobo's spray of pokes had begun to slow Randy's reflexes. Turpin let himself get trapped against the ropes, and there, while Bobo poured hooks and jabs to the head and body, Turpin unaccountably covered up only his midsection. Randy went down for a short count at the end of that round, for a nine-count in the next...
...Cruel Sea. One of the best of the World War II films, based on Nicholas Monsarrat's bestseller and filled with the salt spray and shellbursts of naval warfare (TIME...