Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hastings William Sackville Russell, twelfth Duke of Bedford, a pamphleteering pacifist and animal lover who once had a private zoo for a hobby and became an expert on the mating habits of spiders, announced from his home in Woburn, England that he has developed a strain of homing parrots. They fly free during the day, he said, but return home at night to eat, sleep and breed...
...itself, says Dr. Rosenbaum, the electrocardiograph cannot tell the heart's whole story. If the graph shows a minor deviation from normal, the doctor usually mutters something about "strain" and orders the patient to give up some of his favorite activities. This exaggerated caution causes many patients "serious psychologic and economic suffering...
...Stewart says goodbye to his gravely precocious daughter (Janette Scott) and shambles aboard a Reindeer. The trip starts brightly enough; a pretty stewardess (Glynis Johns) pampers him, and Movie Star Dietrich dozes just across the aisle. Then he learns that the plane is just past its crucial point of strain...
When streptomycin was found in a shovelful of New Jersey dirt (TIME, Jan. 29, 1945), Pfizer added it to its line, while continuing a search for an antibiotic of its own. Since no one ever knows where a new antibiotic will be turned up (the purest penicillin strain was discovered growing on a melon in Peoria), Pfizer began to check the molds in 100,000 different samples of soil, gathered from all over the world. The job, says McKeen, was to find "the compounds that God has put in the earth for centuries." After uncovering 75 possible antibiotics, none...
...Plebeian Strain...