Word: tars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gone up in step with that from lung cancer. This question was tackled by Epidemiologist Ernest L. Wynder, of Manhattan's Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, who created a stir 17 months ago when he produced cancers consistently on the backs of mice by using tobacco tar. Said Researcher Wynder: larynx cancer has become commoner, but it has not become a commoner cause of death. Reason: earlier detection and therefore more effective surgery, possible with easy-to-get-at larynx cancers but not with those deep in the lung...
...ready to clamp to his nose, as when he described a provincial sausage: "The odor was as if you had entered a stable at the moment the coachman was unwinding his leg puttees; when you started chewing the stuff you experienced a sensation like sinking your teeth into a tar-smeared dog's tail." Yet he spent a heroic overworked year heading off a cholera epidemic in a west Russia country district, all the while grumping unheroically...
Undefeated North Carolina continued its triumphant tour of the east by blanking the varsity tennis team yesterday, 11 to 0, on the Soldiers Field courts. Earlier this week the Tar Heels overwhelmed Williams and Amherst...
...first singles match, the Tar Heels' Herb Browne swept Ham Gravem, 6-3, 6-0. At two, Captain Alex Haegler played his finest tennis of the year, displaying a very powerful forehand, but bowed to Tom Bradford, who rotates with Browne and Bob Payne in playing one. Payne defeated Conrad Fischer at three...
...Heckscher and Gravem will play number one doubles for the Crimson. Haegler and Harris will play second doubles, and either Canfield and Fischer, or Mayers and Ian Gianetti will meet the third Tar Heel doubles team...