Word: wax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after he was sworn into office, Diefenbaker flew to London for the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference. He had an audience with the Queen, and dinner at Windsor Castle; he spent a weekend at Chequers, and got a request from Madame Tussaud's that he sit for a wax statue. Prime Minister Diefenbaker flashed a happy grin, confided to a friend: "I'm enjoying...
...that tastes like fresh 2) a method to make newsprint from southern hardwoods, which would make up income small farmers have lost in cotton; 3) a process to extract fertilizer from chicken feathers; 4) a way to get from rice hulls 750,000 Ibs. a year of a special wax, now imported; 5) development of a host of new drugs, such as antibiotics from tomato leaves and hormones from...
Tentative Conclusion. Could the original substance from which the cancer agent is formed be pinned down and removed from the tobacco? Wynder & Co. closed in on a natural waxy substance that is known to coat the tobacco leaf. In the wax are "aliphatic hydrocarbons.'' which, burned at high temperatures, produce "polycyclic hydrocarbons," and these in turn can cause cancer...
Working with the University of Toronto's Chemist George Wright, the researchers washed tobacco in hot hexane, which dissolves the wax. They extracted the wax and burned it alone. The resulting tar proved to be at least ten times as cancer-potent as ordinary tar from whole tobacco: in five months all mice painted with a 5% solution from tests at 880° had papillomas (precursors of cancer), and 27% had full-blown cancer. The tar from the wax contained all the cancer agents now known to exist in small amounts in cigarette tar, but Dr. Wynder doubts that...
...Arend-Roland will be the first really bright comet since 1910 (Halley's, not due to be seen again by earthlings until about 1984), but astronomers hate to make predictions about comets. Far from behaving like respectable members of the solar system, they are skittish and unpredictable. They wax and wane capriciously. Some of them grow magnificent tails; others...