Word: 1900s
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...longtime preoccupation with the shape of the human figure has reached from Fletcher's mastication diet of the early 1900s to Elmer Wheeler's Fat Boy calorie counter of the '50s, but no diet fad has ever taken the U.S. so overwhelmingly as the craze for the food supplement Metrecal (TIME, Oct. 3) and its sister brands. Across the nation last week, drugstores and supermarkets were clamoring for fresh carload deliveries to accommodate the growing hordes of Schmoo-shaped addicts who were insisting on guzzling their way to the vanishing point. Cried a happy druggist...
...first serious attempts to transplant organs by modern surgical techniques began in the early 1900s, when pioneering Dr. Charles Claude Guthrie, working at St. Louis' Washington University, created two-headed dogs by grafting. Today most of the surgical techniques have been perfected. Such surgeons as Stanford's Norman E. Shumway Jr. have developed grafting to the point where a dog with an unrelated dog's transplanted heart is up and hopping around within 24 hours, but it dies within three weeks...