Word: trails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reported on his work at a Chicago meeting of the American Society for the Study of Arteriosclerosis. His hopeful news: in his extensive tests, the ether treatment worked; in 80% of the cases it saved patients' gangrenous legs from amputation. Boasted the doctor: "I've blazed a trail...
Amber Over Tokyo. Mott asks, but cannot answer, why the field of popular fiction has been so narrow. There have been no lastingly popular American novels on industry, the clipper ships, the rail roads, the Oregon Trail, immigration, the discovery of gold or oil, the movies, radio, or the New Deal. Readers could get good, solidly based historical novels on the fall of Rome or the battle of Waterloo, but not of the Lewis & Clark expedition...
...always interrupting his painting. He is still a devoted party liner, though the Communists expelled him in 1930 for visiting his girl friend when he was under orders to hide out. They thought that the girl friend was being watched by the police. The police were on his trail anyway, replied Siqueiros: he was being tailed by a detective all the time, and 20 feet behind the detective lurked a party comrade. Usually, when he was arrested, he was treated as Mr. Siqueiros, a prominent artist who just happened to have some silly political quirks. But after leading a forbidden...
...know about it. The instrument's chief working parts are a small chamber, a bronze wire (charged by a battery) and a fine, platinum-coated quartz fiber one-thirtieth the thickness of a human hair. When X rays or gamma rays enter the chamber, they leave a trail of ions which collect on the wire, neutralize its charge and move the quartz fiber...
Stanley's discovery put a pack of scientists hot on the trail of the viruses. Stanley kept well in the forefront; last week he summed up recent discoveries in the eerie world of the infinitely little and the half-alive...