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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Extreme pessimism regarding cancer of the lung is no longer justified, said the University of Tennessee's Dr. Duane Carr. Even in cases which are found too late for surgery to help, deep X-ray treatments and drugs (nitrogen mustard and triethylene melamine) will relieve pain and prolong life...
...Great), Urban II, Leo X, Pius...
...damaging things: they poured quantities of awkward new words into the language and this in turn persuaded everybody that each new thing must have a name, preferably 'scientific.' These new words . . . were fashioned to impress, an air of profundity being imparted by the particularly scientific letters k, x and o = Kodak, Kleenex, Sapolio. The new technological words were sinful hybrids like 'electrocute,' or misunderstood phrases like 'personal equation,' 'nth degree,' or 'psychological moment'-brain addlers of the greatest potency...
...have discovered a hitherto latent or dormant fissionable quality "X" of energy, electricity, power, etc. Example: said quality or X maintains that no original nor initial unit or source of energy, electricity, power, etc., can be truly split nor divided into any fraction of the whole and when split or divided into two or more divisions each said division plus my new invention instantly becomes a separate and complete unit or source of energy, electricity or power each the equal of the said original for doing work...
...plane was built as a flying laboratory, loaded with 1,200 Ibs. of instruments, to explore sustained flying at very high speeds. This ruled out rocket motors, which use so much fuel that they can deliver full power for only a few minutes. Whether the X-3's turbo jets proved powerful enough to drive it at the speed for which it was designed is still an official secret. Bridgeman, Douglas, the Air Force and the Navy have now finished with the X3, are turning it over to the NACA for further research work without talking about its performance...