Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...metal case of the set in question was bulged, and the contents shattered beyond use or identification, but it was no molten mass. Surely, if the bomb was as powerful as described, it would have been a fire hazard in the event of such an accident as I figured...
...siren, got from their beds to the firehouse; by the time the first engine had ended a screaming 70-mile-an-hour run, desperate patients were leaping out windows. Yelling firemen hurriedly began raising ladders. So did nearby householders. Other men & women dragged mattresses from their houses, tried to use them to break the fall of those who were poised to leap with the flames licking at them...
...test is still experimental. In a year or so, thinks Dr. Nelson, it may be ready for general use. What is slowing him up is the difficulty of getting enough virulent spirochetes from rabbits. The work opens up the possibility of vaccination against syphilis. Says Nelson cautiously: "If enough spirochetes were available, then it might be possible that they could be so treated that they could be used as a vaccine...
...Use Kidding. Because the world champion Cleveland Indians had fewer weak spots than the rest, they were favorites to be the American League champions again. The Indians had been shrewder, and luckier, in filling another of baseball's great deficiencies: they had fresh pitching talent that could survive nine innings. They had big (6 ft. 3½ in.) Gene Bearden, who won 20 and lost 7 last year, plus assorted ablebodied veterans. In Manager Lou Boudreau they also had the smartest, hardest-hitting shortstop in baseball...
...only two first-rank stars, Tommy Henrich and Joe DiMaggio, and both were slowing down. On top of that, DiMaggio's right heel had not healed to his satisfaction after last fall's operation for a bone spur. Said DiMag last week: "There's no use kidding anybody, my heel still hurts." Without the big guy, the Yankees would be in peril of the second division; even with him, they would be lucky to stay ahead of 86-year-old Connie Mack's young, ambitious Philadelphia Athletics...