Word: versa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...medical section of your magazine carries a brief report of my research on the preservation of whole blood by freezing . . . The story is ... misleading. We do not spray liquid nitrogen on the blood but vice versa. The transfusion was not a complete success since over 6% of the cells were destroyed in the processing and another 6% left the circulation in the first six hours after transfusion. Storage is only theoretically indefinite at temperatures too low to be practical. Storage at higher temperatures is being studied, but results are not yet available. My associate, Mr. [Emanuel] Kafig shared equally...
Some of the newest jazz styles are bouncing out of some of the oldest countries and vice versa, at least in Angel's six LPs of transoceanic combos. From among the historic ruins comes Italian Jazz Stars, with its display of long, contrapuntal lines and cool U.S. flavors. Among the stars: Oscar Valdambrini and his neat, confident trumpeting (in La barca del sogni); Roberto Nicolosi and his hip orchestra (in something called C collaboration). Out of the newest culture of all comes Inside Jazz Down Under, with Graeme Bell and his jazz band, and the style is pure...
...Professor Denis Brogan is an old hand at explaining Britons to Americans and vice versa, but TIME'S London crowd-counter stands by his original estimate. As for Churchill's fancy trappings, worn on his way to Buckingham Palace, let Reader Brogan take another look...
...work on his doctorate (in jurisprudence) at Columbia, under Professor Raymond Moley. His thesis, a study of the grand-jury system, is a definitive work on the subject. Moley was enormously attracted to his bright young student. Later Moley changed his mind about Morse-and, of course, vice versa...
Sharp-eyed moviegoers will find familiar notes in the retired general's gruff good humor, thinning gray hair, ingenuous smile, and underlying heart of gold. One wonders if Jagger is patterned after Eisenhower or vice-versa...