Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after ten years and 1,000 experiments, stocky Scotsman George Brownlee, 37, thought he had something. His research team at Wellcome Physiological Laboratory, Beckenham, Kent, had produced a new antibiotic from bacteria (Bacillus aerosporus) found in soil from a market garden. The antibiotic is called aerosporin (pronounced a-ross-poe-rin). The researchers' tests and findings were reported with cautious excitement in Lancet...
...also worked in its first test on human beings-ten children, one month to 2½ years old, suffering from whooping cough. All showed definite improvement in the first 48 hours. (Two of the children later died, but neither death was due either to whooping cough or to aerosporin...
...Ochsner Clinic began with ten beds for diagnostic purposes, now has 220 in three buildings, a medical staff of 62 (mostly from Tulane), helped by some 200 interpreters, nurses, technicians, orderlies. Polite attention to private physicians who send patients to the clinic has warded off gripes that often plague group practice clinics; careful attention to the patient as a person on the diagnostic assembly line has won the clinic the name, "Mayo of the South...
Beau Jack v. Terry Young (Fri. 10 p.m., NBC Television). Ten-round lightweight bout at Madison Square Garden...
...giving priorities to Reese's materials and stopping through trains at Scio just to unload them. When he ran short of cash, five New York chain stores, which had sold millions of pieces of Reese-made china, lent him $10,000 apiece. They told him he could take ten years to pay it back in cups and saucers...