Word: throughout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caesium 137, which is a genetic peril because it spreads throughout the body. ¶ Strontium 90, which affects the bones, especially of young children, because it is absorbed like calcium. ¶ Carbon 14, which has a half-life of 5,700 years and has probably risen in all living matter -3%-.6% since the beginning of nuclear weapons tests...
...I.A.R.F. was founded in Boston in 1900, mostly by American Unitarians and "other liberal religious thinkers and workers," underwent several name changes throughout the years as it collected kindred groups in other countries...
This question, based on an incident in a New York municipal hospital, is engaging the attention of Protestants, Jews and Catholics throughout the country-outside New York, especially in Connecticut and Massachusetts, where Catholic voters have succeeded in making the dissemination of birth control information illegal. In Brooklyn's Kings County Hospital, Dr. Louis Hellman had been about to fit a contraceptive device to a diabetic woman, mother of three, whose life, in his opinion, would be endangered by another pregnancy. He was stopped from doing so by his supervisor, Dr. Harvey Gollance, acting on the orders...
...modern American optimist, with some cheery predictions for the future. Said Curtice, who has been more often right than wrong: In 1959 the auto industry will sell about 5,500.000 cars (v. an estimated 4,300,000 in '58), which in turn will "start a chain reaction throughout the whole economy. I should expect a further increase in the gross national product in the fourth quarter, and that this improvement would gather momentum through...
What Author Dennis offers is less often humor than lunatic good humor, and the reader is blown by a pleasant breeze of cheerful idiocy throughout most of the book. Probably inevitably, a calm is reached toward the end, when Mame doing her old turns in outlandish new costumes no longer seems very funny. Particularly in a long, unnecessarily moralistic chapter on Mame among the anti-Semites, Around the World begins to sound like The Long Voyage Home...