Word: warn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gaunt Philippa Allen, social worker, testified: "Dry drilling was the cause of the dense silica dust. It would stop when State mine inspectors entered the tunnel. Men acted as lookouts to warn of their presence. As a result inspectors testified that the tunnel was practically dust free. Mrs. Charlie Jones of Gamoca was the .first to find what was killing the men." Mrs. Jones, according to Miss Allen, begged money along the road to pay for x-rays of the lungs of her son Shirley who asked on his deathbed to "be opened up to see if I didn...
...Philadelphia by Dr. John Kolmer (TIME, July 16, 1934 et seq.). Twelve children who received one or the other of the vaccines last summer rapidly contracted the disease. Of the twelve, six died. Said Dr. Leake: "I feel that the fact we found fatalities makes it advisable that we warn the public and physicians...
...trifle with the big magnet. Once a small metal part worked loose within its field, whizzed into the core, nipped off the end of Dr. Lawrence's finger on the way. He and his men carry little gadgets resembling fountain pens clipped to their pockets, electroscopes to warn them of baneful radiations of the sort that set up tissue necrosis in x-ray experimenters. But neutrons, electrically inert particles, do not affect electroscopes, and penetrate many times farther than x-rays. Dr. Lawrence found that rats placed a few inches from the neutron source lost 80% of their white...
Last thing Dexter Merriam Keezer did before he became president of Reed College (Portland, Ore.) was to promise a friend he would not turn into a "stuffed shirt." After one year in the job President Keezer felt compelled last fortnight to warn all ambitious young educators how close he had come to breaking his promise. Wrote he in his annual report: "The conception [of the college president held by much of the community] is perhaps best reflected by the subjects on which I have been asked to address groups: The Future of the Western Hemisphere, Shakespeare's Message...
...oils. An X-ray device has been developed which tells genuine from imitation leather, and which reveals the minutest internal details of insects, down to embryonic skeletons in unlaid eggs. A method of developing sensitized paper by heat may find its industrial application in making wrappings for fruit, to warn consignees when shipments have not been kept below spoiling temperature. Akron. The tourists did not show up at the B. F. Goodrich rubber plant looking like janitors but they were obviously not wearing their best clothes. Reason: they had been forewarned that what clothes they wore through the plant would...