Word: stems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Convinced that a "thread" somewhere in the human body linked vomiting with many types of illness, Dr. Borison and Columbia University's Dr. S. C. Wang determined, in 1953, the existence of a vomiting control center and a trigger zone in the brain stem. By removing the trigger zone from the brains of dogs and cats, Dr. Borison and his research staff have been able to prevent vomiting that ordinarily follows the injection of certain chemicals into the blood stream...
...majority of Cambridge's incoming City Council yesterday called the urban renewal program the city's only hope to stem the thousands of families currently moving out of the city...
...poor turnout does not stem from poor publicity. Certain bad features of the Act itself account for the dearth of applicants. Although the volunteers may defer their term of active service temporarily, they must begin it before they are 21 years old. They must also serve 71/2 years in the ready reserve, including 48 weekly two-hour sessions and a two-week training period per year...
Chiefly responsible for the educational project is Cass D. Alvin, the Steelworkers' western regional educational director. Alvin likes to cite a page of labor history as the wrong way to cope with the problem: England's igth century "Luddites" tried to stem the infant Industrial Revolution by smashing up the new machinery. Says Alvin: "We could kick these new electronic machines like the Luddites did, but they wouldn't give a damn...
...name,* started out in Cape Town and crossed the Equator eight times in one year. U.S. Journalist John Gunther, who is running out of continents to get inside of (he has been Inside Europe, Asia, Latin America and the U.S.A.}, started in Morocco and toured Africa from "stem to stern, from top to bottom." All told, Gunther reckons, he traveled 40,000 miles in a year, visited 105 towns and "took notes on conversations with 1,503 people." Novelist Cloete confined his search to a single if vast theme: "To clarify our minds about the racial ferment of Africa...