Word: sulfured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Huge coal deposits at Karaganda in Kazak, only recently prospected, are now yielding 5,500,000 tons a year, and the once Godforsaken hamlet of Karaganda has become a modern city. So has Kounrad, where the mining of extensive copper deposits around Lake Balkhash has begun. Sulfur plants have sprung up in the hills of Darvaz in Turkestan...
...live in them for $5 a month more than in a rooming house) give frequent dances. Each after noon undergraduates gather in Hennick's, across High Street, for sodas and 3.2 beer. Other customs: strolling down the Long Walk, which bisects the campus; necking on the banks of sulfur-smelling Mirror Lake...
...patients in the early stages of arthritis he gives a course of twelve weekly injections of a gold-sulfur compound. Injections are made into a muscle. Doses are too small to bring toxic results: the first injection is only ten milligrams, the second 50, the next ten 100. During the first three weeks, said Dr. Dawson, a patient may feel "much worse." But in the second half of the course he shows "marked improvement." After the twelfth dose he is given a month's rest before another course of injections...