Word: excelsior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This "autograft" principle was the basis of U.S. efforts to arrest leukemia. A four-year-old girl in Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, in Cooperstown, N.Y., was near death, and anti-leukemia drugs would no longer give any relief. Dr. E. Donnall Thomas told an American Cancer Society seminar at Excelsior Springs, Mo. how he then placed the child between two cobalt "bombs" (equivalent to 2,000,000-volt X-ray machines) and subjected her to 800 r.-more than had ever before been given intentionally to a human being. Then he injected marrow cells taken from her identical twin sister...
Comments ranged from "Excelsior!" to "Pshaw." One high-ranking Administration flunkey said only, "Plunk yore magic twanger, Froggie...
Delegates did speak freely, but hardly fraternally. First off, when the Arabs saw that Israel had sent an official from its Foreign Ministry, they threatened to withdraw if the Israelis were seated. Conference officials scurried back and forth between the Arabs in the Hotel Excelsior and the Israelis across the square in the Grand, finally got a compromise whereby the Israelis would attend the conference as observers, not as delegates...
...happy medium in education without mottoing "Excelsior Dewey" or "Hi-Ho Science...
...pond ducks was splashing near an empty boat. "Want to see something interesting?" (He stepped over the seats and pointed to a small wooden box in the rear) "See that--eleven duck eggs! That's the mother over there--they're mallards. We put some excelsior in this box after she laid the first egg and now she's laid ten more. They take thirty days to hatch and if you come back here then you can see duck chicks right on the boat...