Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment of impact, it seemed that the Sky Queen had been swallowed. People watching from two circling trans-'atlantic DC-45 saw her disappear completely in a great wash of white water. Then, miraculously, she reappeared "like a huge whale" and wallowed noisily toward the rolling Bibb...
...grows through many rounds of grizzly fistienffs, and he finally learns that to court his love, he must make with a right to her muzzle. Add some good tunes to his slaps, and the result is tops. Clumping about in a Northwoods that would make a lumberman's mouth water, Bonge and the bears paw one another sufficiently to reach anybody's funnybone. Scenes of bears winding through a rough and tumble square dance to the yells of a hillbilly caller, and slapping their sweethearts against a background of valentines and fir trees, are all bright-eyed Disney...
Modern Treatment. Cholera, an infection of the digestive tract, kills chiefly by removing water from the body. The blood gets too thick to circulate, and death comes from "shock." Modern treatment knocks off the vibrios (comma-shaped, whiskery bacteria) with sulfa drugs, and dilutes the thickening blood with saline solution or serum. The vaccine has worked well. No one receiving two injections (cost: 3?) has yet got the disease; only one who has had a single shot has come down with...
...Lansing, a 32-year-old geneticist and old-age expert at Washington University, has been studying the rotifer, a minute animal that lives in water. Rotifers are ideally fitted for experiments on senescence : they are multicellular,* have simple brains, eye spots, and live three weeks or less. The females produce fertile eggs without male help. (The males are rare, weak, often impotent, live only 24 hours...
...removing calcium† from the rotifers' water, he stretched out their lives. By adding calcium, he shortened them. Brief immersions in sodium citrate, which removes calcium, lengthened the life spans of aging rotifers...