Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is, they say, a time for classes, and a time for dates; a time for cocktail parties and for lunches in the Square. There's a time, too, for Boston and for Saturday drives. And there used to be a time for jolly-ups--fall time and spring-time, beginning-of-the-term time--but jolly-up time has passed forever...
Eisenhower's daughter-in-law Barbara and the four Eisenhower grandchildren. There Eisenhower and Khrushchev reached substantive agreement of a sort. They agreed to defer President Eisenhower's return visit to the U.S.S.R. until the flowers bloom in the spring. Reason, according to Khrushchev: Eisenhower agreed to bring his grandchildren to Russia, would prefer spring's warmer weather...
...Alamos' Omega West is a swimming-pool-type research reactor whose fuel rods are suspended under 25 ft. of water, which acts not only as coolant and moderator but also shields its human operators from radioactivity. In the spring of 1958, physicists peering down through it saw that the water was getting cloudy. They called Chemist-Bacteriologist Eric B. Fowler of the laboratory's radioactive-waste disposal group, who found that it was swarming with microorganisms, about i billion per quart. The bugs turned out to be rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas, which were feeding...
...year-old boy who was rolled into the operating room of St. Margaret's Hospital in Spring Valley, Ill. had no history of heart trouble, so Surgeon Russell Simonetta confidently ordered an anesthetic : cyclopropane, after an intravenous injection of thiopental sodium. Within two hours, Dr. Simonetta, assisted by Dr. Henry Jacobs, had completed his surgery: cleaning and setting an elbow fractured when the patient was pinned under a tractor. Then, as he was about to be wheeled out, the boy's heart stopped...
Several retrospective validations of the Social Prediction Table have been made since its publication in 1950. The first appeared in the spring of 1952--a study made by Bertram J. Black and Selma J. Glick of the Jewish Board of Guardians in New York City...