Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remove the poison from the blood. But Adair's was a stubborn case. After 24 hours he remained in coma. Alarmed, hospital doctors got Adair transferred to U.C.L.A. Medical Center, where researchers had been experimenting on dogs with a fluid-exchange method called peritoneal dialysis, originally devised to tide patients over a kidney shutdown...
...stem the tide of dwindling enrollments, campus after campus has launched campaigns to convince young people that the farm is still a land of opportunity. Ohio State University has set up career conferences at high schools across Ohio. "But when we went into the schools," says Assistant Dean John T. Mount of the College of Agriculture, "we found that a lot of people thought agriculture still means plowing the land and milking the cows and little more." The University of Nebraska's College of Agriculture is thinking of sending out a special recruiting exhibit to high schools. Iowa State...
...include what he calls "the transitoriness lite. Now we're here, now we're not." Says he: "I suppose that I would have been a good transcendentalist 100 years ago." He often paints water, finding in its unresting ebb and flow an almost obsessive symbol for the tides of time. On occasion, as in his stormy Clock (see cut) time, tide and the implied threat of shipwreck build together into a powerful unity. At other times he uses a huge winter-stripped, decaying tree to suggest the fact that even the giants of the forest must eventually fall...
Matinee has been bought by such sponsors as Bab-O, Motorola TV and Tide, but it has never been a sponsor sellout. However, prestige-conscious NBC is so happy with its plaything that it has booked Matinee for a second year, with a $5,000,000 budget. An "Emmy" Award winner ("Best contribution to daytime programming"), Matinee currently gets more than 2,000 letters a month, last week vaulted into the top slot of daytime dramatic-show ratings...
Saltwater skippers like to downgrade the 333-mile Chicago-to-Mackinac Island sailing race; Lake Michigan's waters are troubled with no tidal rips, no tide-fouled soundings to try the seamanship of the racing yachtsman. Still, the "world's longest race on drinking water" is no pleasure cruise for landlubbers; it has hazards enough of its own. Foul weather makes up out of nowhere, fog abounds, squalls are sharp and sudden. By playing those unpredictable elements shrewdly last week, Nicholas J. Geib, 39, a manufacturer of musical-instrument cases, brought home his nimble 39-ft. yawl Fleetwood...