Word: batch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...isotopes in a dozen ways. Refineries employ them to trace the flow of catalysts through craeking plants, Isotopes serve as tireless sentinels to warn of hidden leaks in pipes, as sensitive controls to separate oil from gasoline in pipelines. Oilmen merely insert a shot of an isotope after each batch is pumped in; when the radioactive cocktail reaches interchange points, the isotope automatically activates valves that shunt the crude and the gasoline in proper directions...
Hollywood got set for the holiday trade and the annual year-end scramble for Oscars. Still in the can but ready for release are a batch of ambitious films with which cinemoguls hope to capture both cash and glory...
...homosexual collaborator appears, to lure the husband to Venice as a better place to work. Among other callers in the expensive, brick-walled penthouse are a very modern and very muddled obstetrician, a very airy and very ruthless lady decorator. Eventually there is a second homosexual, and ultimately a batch of shoddy theater folk...
...Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of University Health Services, indicated last night that "a large batch" of vaccine will be received some time next week. He said that "there will be enough vaccine, but we anticipate a bottleneck in trying to find enough space to dispense...
...proof of which he scientifically measures on a chart of specific gravities. Then, by a slightly less scientivc, but equally effective, method he correlates the specific gravity to the proper proof. His own favorite is specific gravity .932 (102 proof), although occasionally a .930-specific-gravity (104 proof) batch will be accepted...