Word: useless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart is the first organ that the cold blood reaches after it is dripped in through an arm vein, and the heart is sensitive to cold. Excess chilling can easily cause it to stop or go into useless twitching (fibrillation) from which the patient may never recover...
...Cohen. He told bright Tiger cubs that if they expected "only to accumulate knowledge, I would advise you to begin negotiations with another institution where you can attach yourself to a pipeline of inanimate learning and become full, like a storage tank, sealed by a diploma and otherwise useless...
...applied heat, to "glue" the retina in place so that it would not become detached during surgical manipulation. With an ultrasound device that worked from outside the eyeball, Dr. Bronson was able to get a rough idea where the object was, and Dr. Passmore proceeded to remove the useless, damaged lens from Jimmy's eye. Then Dr. Bronson took up the ultimate in delicate, ultrasound probes, smaller and finer than any dentist's drill. Its tip, about as thick as a pencil lead, emitted ultrasound pulses and picked up the echoes that came back from objects in their...
...trio of SST engineers tried hard to overcome doubts. Though many airmen have feared that the SSTs would be useless for medium-range flights because of the lengthy ascents they require to reach cruising altitudes, the engineers insisted that the planes will be practical down to flights of only 600 miles, will be able to operate productively for ten hours a day v. nine for the present jets. They held out promise that the sonic-boom problem will be solved eventually, possibly by delaying until high altitudes the crossover from subsonic to supersonic speeds. Most of all, they stressed...
...sevens or twos. But let them not call themselves Europe. For Europe is a territory extending from the Atlantic to the Urals . . . and unless the Europe we see for tomorrow is a confederation of the whole of the European continent, our Europe-making today will be worse than useless...