Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...means of a chemical, DNA (desoxyribosenucleic acid), extracted from the chromosomes. When this practice is extended to humans, certain hereditary characteristics of one person can be transferred to the reproductive cells of another person. Looking far ahead, Rostand anticipates a time "when each human infant could receive a standard DNA that would confer the most desirable physical and intellectual characteristics. Such children will not be the offspring of a particular couple, but of the entire species...
...seemingly hopeless case when matadors have been gored in the groin, where the horn often severs the femoral artery-the kind of wound that killed the great Manolete in 1947 in Linares, far from Don Luis's aid. To stanch the gusher-like bleeding from such a wound, standard techniques are too slow and inefficient. Don Luis has perfected a method of applying pressure to the lower belly, just below the point where the femoral arteries branch off. To let the wounds heal, he uses another technique of his own: draining them through the muscles. Though...
About half the 112 freight shipping conferences operating in U.S. foreign trade try to freeze out the independent shippers by a "dual rate" policy, i.e., rates up to 10% lower than standard for customers who use only conference ships. Isbrandtsen has refused to join such conferences, holding that they are cartels that add to the cost of foreign trade and discourage free competition. In the early 1950s the line captured 30% of cargoes between Japan and the U.S. East Coast (with only 11% of the sailings) by setting prices 10% below those of the Japan-Atlantic & Gulf Freight Conference...
...rabbits are meek, small, soft and vegetarian, considered harmless by most (Australians to the contrary), and virtually unknown in literature. They have large ears which stick up--a help in finding a rabbit in a crowd--and small, happy tails. Through no fault of their own they bear the standard of sexual fertility--an aspect of prime importance in determining their role as symbol...
...Forces. The human body can stand travel at any rate of speed provided that it is constant. What hurts is a too-abrupt change in speed or direction. Standard of measurement for such changes is the g (from gravity), which is equal to the acceleration produced by the earth's pull at sea level. Unprotected and in normal sitting position, the body cannot stand more than about 3½ g for more than about 15 seconds. Semisupine, even without a pressure suit, it can stand 6 g for 4½ minutes, as much as 12 g for only...