Word: followings
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...nation's Saturday-night-out. Few people were much aroused from their weekend calm; the people had heard most of what he had to say before. Defense costs were going up & up; they would be $30 billion annually by next June, more in the years to follow. There would be less to spend for peacetime purposes. The home-front problem, the President said, was threefold...
...first round was right in range, but 500 yards to the left of the target. Gay gave the correction to the guns. This time the rounds were right on the nose. The Reds who could still move raced back up the hill to safety. Gay had his airbursts follow them...
Wild animals in "freedom," says Dr. Hediger, are not really free. They follow restricted routines punctuated by terror. Each has a "territory" or a social rank from which it cannot budge without a battle. Each has enemies, including man, from which it must constantly flee. Wild animals are often hungry, sexually frustrated, diseased. Few of them reach maturity. The lucky ones, thinks Dr. Hediger, land in well-run zoos...
...virus of poliomyelitis, one of the smallest disease-causing organisms, is less than a millionth of an inch long. Trying to follow this minute invader as it attacks the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord has long been a baffling problem for polio researchers. Last week two Yalemen, Drs. Joseph L. Melnick and John B. LeRoy, told how they had used the electron microscope to study this microcosmic warfare-with surprising results...
...Registered nurses are prime wife material," reported Dr. Donald Cass gravely, "because the same emotional and psychological urges which lead them into the nursing profession make them excellent wives and mothers. Only about 20% of all graduate R.N.s follow their profession for any considerable length of time. They tend to be snapped up by sensible young men. A nurse learns to care for other people's pains, instead of spilling out her own problems. She takes to family life like an old hen taking over a brood of chickens. It's no wonder there's a nurse...