Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...standard injection treatment is 15,000 to 20,000 units every three hours, day & night, but a general practitioner who finds this schedule impossible can usually get satisfactory results with one or two daily injections. Small doses are useless. The minimum for one or two daily injections: 200,000 to 300,000 units...
...Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association reported reassuringly: 1) commercial penicillin now in use is predominantly of the effective G type instead of the useless K (TIME, May 6); and 2) while new penicillin-resistant varieties of bacteria have been developed in test tubes, they are not yet a problem in practice...
...years Cobalt was a ghost town. Then in 1940 it hit the comeback trail. The war created a heavy U.S. demand for cobalt as an alloy in cutting tools. In the town's heyday, get-rich-quick silver miners had tossed cobalt ore aside as useless; now it was worth over 80? a pound, and the old cobalt dumps were in demand...
Finer stressed five points of criticism of the structure and personnel of Congress. He pointed out that under present practice Congressional legislation is dilatory, tends to be amended until it is useless, that Congress does not consider the effect domestic legislation will have on the nation's foreign relations; and attacked "log-rolling," and the vicious attitude of certain Congressional committees toward administrators...
Researchers, who have fumbled and bumbled for lack of an effective technique, can now "do an experiment a day instead of two a year," according to Dr. Dubos. They can also diagnose new TB cases, where X rays are useless, in a few days instead of two months. Previous methods of cultivating the bacteria were not only slow but they usually modified the organism so as to make the experiments inconclusive...