Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week medical detectives were carrying on an intensive campaign to find the donor who was carrying the uncommon jalciparum malaria parasites. Although the patient he infected has recovered after proper treatment, the blood donor himself may die if he is not treated in time, or infect other persons with additional transfusions. Of the 23 pints used at New York Hospital, 19 had come from regular hospital donors-medical students, nurses, technicians and outside contributors. All were tested and found free from malaria, as was one commercial donor. The three others could not be found at the addresses they...
...HCUA claim that Government 1's "quota system" is uncommon in large lower-level courses was verified yesterday by several professors and section...
...deliberations begin at 10 a.m. and continue until 6 p.m.; often the group will adjourn for dinner and then return to sit until midnight. Like most committees the FCAS usually makes a decision by reaching some kind of consensus. Heated discussions on the merits of a candidate are not uncommon, however, and if the Committee is split the decision is made by a formal vote...
Outside the dorms, the word "ghetto" is not uncommon among the foreign students. With apartment rentals as expensive as they are, five or six graduate students often crowd into one apartment, dividing the costs. Us-usually they stay with their own nationality...
What to do? The first thing is to learn more about retardation's causes, said the President. So far, only about 25% of cases can be medically explained by mongolism, birth injury, infection in infancy, German measles early in gestation, the Rh factor, lead poisoning, or uncommon defects in the body's enzyme chemistry. Where no such factors can be detected, retardation is commonest, said Kennedy, in urban and rural slums, in places where women get little or no doctoring during pregnancy. And there is much retardation among these mothers' abnormally high proportion of premature babies. Children...