Word: weaver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Puanar, donated by Gandhi's old benefactor, the late Millionaire Jamnalal Bajaj, seemed so luxurious to the ascetic Bhave that he was tempted to refuse it. Finally he accepted, but stripped the bungalow to its bare walls. Like Gandhi before him, Bhave is an expert spinner and weaver. Unless it is raining, he sleeps outdoors every night, whether on the road or at Puanar...
Sylvester L. Weaver, Jr., vice-president of N.B.C., spoke on "Radio." Parker Wheatley, Director of the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council, moderated...
Army has beaten strong Yale, but the Cadets have also lost to weaker teams such as Dartmouth and Brandeis. Nevertheless, Army's Ed Weaver, 6-foot 4-inch center, and high scorer Bill Hannon should help to make the game close...
...Behind Weaver's weeds stand years of painstaking work by Virus Researcher Jonas Salk in University of Pittsburgh laboratories. Dr. Salk and his co-workers take samples of all three varieties (the Lansing, Prunhilde and Leon strains) of polio virus and grow them in test tubes with pieces of monkey testicle. They grind up this stuff and treat it with formaldehyde. There is doubt as to whether the chemical "kills" the virus, but no doubt that it knocks it cold. Dr. Salk has taken some of the resulting vaccine and injected it into monkeys. Within three weeks, samples...
...Salk's labs can probably make enough vaccine for Dr. Weaver's field test this year. But if the test succeeds, it will take at least another year to get mass-production quantities of vaccine...