Word: united
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turks in the 15th and 16th centuries, but it must be remembered that all Turkish shooting was done with a hand-held bow. That the Turks were claiming distances approaching 1,000 yds. is, to the best of my knowledge, inaccurate. They measured their distances in a unit called guz, the exact value of which can only be approximated; my conclusion is that 24½ in. for the guz is probably close...
Sometime toward the end of the spring the word "workshop" was introduced into the discussions about the Program. It was generally used to refer to the teaching unit in which the Program experience would occur; but beyond this, no one was sure exactly what it meant. It was a word upon which different teachers were free to put different interpretations. It was an empty cauldron into which a variety of educational ideas and attitudes might be poured...
...future in clowning," said Kelly, but he had a fourth ring up his tattered sleeve. "There is a new field that offers possibilities. That's the shopping center. Entertainment for those neighborhood centers is getting to be a big thing. I'm thinking of getting up a unit to tour them...
...only antidote for botulism, and only moderately effective at best, is a Ledejle Laboratories antitoxin (made by injecting botulinus toxin into horses and extracting their immune serum). It costs about $68 a 20,000-unit vial, and each victim needs at least 50,000 units. Nearest supply was in Portland, Ore.: six vials. More was flown from Denver and Los Angeles. Still not enough. At its Pearl River (N.Y.) headquarters, Lederle drained the barrel, packaged nearly all the remaining antitoxin. Total haul: 139 vials, tagged at $9.591-which Lederle marked "paid," as a public service...
Almost daily, ways are found to give bigger radiation doses more safely to hard-to-reach parts of the body. Examples: cobalt-60 "bombs," a new cesium-137 unit at M. D. Anderson Hospital, higher-powered X-ray machines and linear-particle accelerators, ingeniously refined ways of implanting radioisotopes such as iridium 192 and yttrium 90 in tumors...