Word: effect
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Sound Effect. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Rev. Jackson Burns of St. Paul's Methodist Church, having tape-recorded one of his Sunday sermons, listened to the playback, fell asleep...
...Richards. Not yet given a name of its own, it is marked by an apparent wasting away of tissues, resulting in big holes in the lungs (usually the upper lobes). Victims are generally aged 30 to 40, and most have been heavy smokers, but no direct cause-and-effect relationship between smoking and the disease has been shown. Treatment: surgery to remove the diseased part of the lung...
...multiple sclerosis, rheumatic fever, rheumatoid arthritis, and severe forms of kidney disease. The University of Washington's Dr. Paul P. Van Arsdel Jr. called attention to the appearance of antibodies against their own heart-muscle tissue in victims of heart attacks. When the antibodies appear, they have no effect on the healing of the heart muscle. The consensus: anti bodies will probably appear after protracted damage to any tissues...
...Bernard Briody of New Jersey's Seton Hall University told the meeting that the cowpox virus (used in smallpox vaccine) kills some cancer cells and retards the growth of mouse cancers. For once, medical scientists did not have to wait years to get evidence of a similar effect in man. By coincidence, Yokohama University's Professor Yoshikuni Noguchi reported simultaneously that he was getting encouraging though temporary results in treating skin cancers (especially on the face and hands) with smallpox vaccine...
...thousand guineas [$147,000], Himmelheid." Himmelheid was only a name-a face-saving fiction for Rembrandt's battered and fading goddess, whom no one wanted enough to put up the 100,000 guineas the sellers had hoped for. "If you won't pay," they had said in effect, "we won't play...