Word: uses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cerf, never spits venom in his column. The gentle and often limp anecdotes of his syndicated "The Lyons Den" (106 newspapers) picture the great as playing a perpetual game of conversational pattyball, in which the backhand blast is taboo, and the score is always love-love. "So many people use print to tyrannize," says Drama Critic John Mason Brown. "Lyons just wants to inhale the world...
...heated to its rather low melting point (1184° F.), it passes through six different crystalline forms, expanding and contracting as much as 8.9% of its volume. It warps and distorts itself, disrupting anything to which it is attached. Because of this, Argonne Lab has given up trying to use pure plutonium in reactors, is making fuel elements out of plutonium alloyed or combined with other materials...
...Garden-promptly dubbed "the Garden of Enid" by Dr. Rusk's staff. Around a central greenhouse are plots to be developed by patients of all conditions and sizes. (Though the garden was planned for children, adult patients looked on so wistfully that they will get to use it too.) In the greenhouse, in addition to such decorative come-ons as parrots, a cage of finches and an aquarium, is a wading pool so designed that even children in wheelchairs can roll themselves to its edge and swing around to dabble their toes in it without help...
Main attraction is the array of plants, set on benches of graduated heights so that children or adults, in wheelchairs or standing, can work at them. There the children will grow bougainvillaea to climb a trellis. They will use other trellises for grapes, tomatoes, peas and sweet peas. Children learning to use artificial hands have already set out young plants that can take rough handling...
...subsidize hospitals. A major drain on the voluntary hospitals has been that the city pays them only $16 a day for care of indigent patients, though it budgets $28 a day in its own hospitals. On July 1 it will begin paying $20, and the hospitals promised to use the extra funds to raise nonprofessional workers' pay. It will amount to $6,000,000 a year, far short of what is needed...