Word: tryouts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tridione, a new synthetic drug, had a successful tryout against the petit mal (small attack) form of epilepsy. Tridione can also dull pain. Its strangest effect: to a patient under treatment with tridione, everything appears to be lightly coated with snow...
...wife, a Spanish singer named Lina Llubera whom he met on his first trip to Manhattan. Prokofiev now lives in a Moscow apartment with a tall, intense young writer named Mira Mendelssohn, who helped him on the libretto for War and Peace, the Tolstoyan opera which had its tryout last March. Stalin had promised to let Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera produce it, but after its Moscow premiere, War and Peace was hastily withdrawn for reworking. Soviet critics objected mostly to Mira's unwieldy text...
...material that makes this possible is butyl rubber, a synthetic which has been in commercial production for only two years. Standard Oil Development Co.. which developed it, said that butyl has now had a thorough tryout by the Army. has proved its value. Butyl's great virtue is that its carbon molecules have far fewer loose (saturated) ends than natural rubber; hence it has better resistance to chemicals, sunlight and oxygen. When torn, butyl clings together so that when a tenpenny nail was driven into a tube that had run 35,000 miles, the tube stood...
...Commonwealth Fund, the Federal Government and big drug firms, Dr. Waksman and his dozen students now spend most of their time on streptomycin. Many other laboratories are experimenting on animals with the new drug, working out production methods. In six months there may be enough for a thorough tryout on humans...
...Down." The turn in their luck came in Chicago. Out of work and deeply discouraged, Charlie and Bergen got a week's tryout at the Chez Paree nightclub. At 3 o'clock one morning they came on for their final per formance. The club was almost empty...